Missing a font

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/19/2015 05:12 AM, killermoehre wrote:
> Am 19.04.2015 um 10:21 schrieb ToddAndMargo:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Qoppa PDF Studio Pro 10.0.0
>> Xfce 4.8
>> Scientific Linux 6.6, x64
>>
>> I am using a fill in PDF tax form that doesn't print so good.
>> Qoppa tech support told me that I am missing the font and
>> that the substitute font they grabbed is the problem.
>>
>> So I opened the PDF in Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro in a virtual
>> machine (XP).  The font in question is:
>>
>>     Helvetica LT Std
>>     Size 8
>>     Baseline Shift: opt
>>     Bold
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1) how do I manage my fonts?
>>
>> 2) where do I go to find this font?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
> Hi,
>
> First of all, xfce4.8 isn't supported anymore. Please update to at least 4.10.

Hi Killermoehre,

Would love to.  How?   EPEL or Extra Packages for Enterprise
Linux refuses as our heroes at Xfce insist on using bleading edge 
dependancies that are not supported in EL 6.x.  I wish Xfce
would not do that, but that is a battle I lost a long time ago ...

> Second, fonts are not handled by xfce, but your distribution. Install them via your package manager. Which leads us to:
> Third, Helvetica as used by Microsoft is a proprietary font.

That explains a lot.

> I'm not sure you'll be able to use it.

It is an IRS Schedule C tax form.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sc.pdf

Now this is interesting:

$ fc-match 'Helvetica LT Std'
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

$ rpm -qa \*msttcorefonts\*
msttcorefonts-2.0-2.noarch

I should have the font.

I will ask the distro about a font manager.

Thank you for helping me with this

-T

> Ask your distributor if and how to implement them.
>
> Regards
> killermoehre
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