I just don't get it !

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:19 -0400, Eric Devost wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've spent the last two days on searching for helvetica fonts on breezy. 
> Can't find it.
> I've installed all the TTF that are available in universe and 
> multiverse, no helvetica.
> 
> I know that there is a proprietary issue with this font, do I need to 
> manually download and install helvetica font ? Why is it available on my 
> hoary machine and not on my breezy one ?
> 
> Thanx for helping, I'm out of ressources.
> 
As far as I know, "Helvetica" is a propriety font (owned by Adobe?).
But that's not the problem!  The problem is that there isn't a TrueType
version of that font available for X (only a "Type 1" for printing).

If you really need that font badly for your X (not for printing, as it's
available already), either install "msttcorefonts" which includes the
"Arial" font (which is very similar to "Helvetica" in shape and
characteristic), or run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" and check
"Enable bitmapped fonts by default?".

Again, Helvetica (the version included with X) isn't a scalable font,
for that reason, it'll look very awful on your screen.

> PS:
> I've been with Ubuntu since warthy, and I must say I't a wonderful 
> distro. Thanx !
100% agree.

> 
> Eric,
> 
Ziyad.