Missing a font

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/20/2015 01:03 AM, Mișu Moldovan wrote:
> On 20 April 2015 at 00:51, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I think you are getting closer to what seems to be the root of the
> problem. Your Fontconfig matches DejaVuSans for Helvetica LT Std and
> that's not metrically compatible. It could be that Arial from the
> corefonts package is, so install that and hopefully Fontconfig would
> match Arial as Helvetic LT Std. If not, you could always create a
> manual alias as explained here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Replace_fonts
>
> Font-manager would have helped you with creating an alias. Also note
> that you could use other fonts as metric aliases for Helvetica:
> Liberation Sans from the Liberation fonts, Free Sans from the GNU
> FreeFont project etc.

Thank you!