RE: Adobe Helvetica (ArialMT)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:21 AM 9/13/2002 +0200, peter.rolf@arcor.de wrote:
> >>What can I do to get the builtin Helvetica (ArialMT)?
>
>Hans wrote:
> >in that case you need to remap font names onto the original adobe fonts
> >(like hv);
>
> >however, i suggest to *always* embed the fonts, if only because otherwise
> >you get different results on different platforms, and (worse:) metrics may
> >differ per acrobat and/or os version resulting in strange spacing
>
>Thanks Hans for the help.
>Here is my solution (far from perfect, but it works):
>
>...
>\loadmapfile[ec-urw-helvetica.map]
>\setupbodyfont[phv,12pt] % Helvetica--> URW NimbusSansL
>
>% remap to Adobe Helvetica (ArialMT)
>\definefontsynonym[Helvetica][hv][encoding=ec]
>\definefontsynonym[Helvetica-Bold][hvb][encoding=ec]
>\definefontsynonym[Helvetica-BoldOblique][hvbo][encoding=ec]
>\definefontsynonym[Helvetica-Oblique][hvo][encoding=ec]
>\setupbodyfont[ss]
>...
>
>The second \setupbody[ss] sets hv as default font. Put it in the first one
>[phv,ss,12pt] or leave it and you get NimbusSansL....

first define the synonyms, and then set the bodyfont, otherwise the names 
are already frozen

>Is there a possibility to "embed the embedded" Adobe fonts?

sure, just make an appropriate map file

Hans
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