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.
Hi Mișu,
Thank you for helping me with this!
$ fc-match 'Helvetica LT Std'
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
$ rpm -qa \*msttcorefonts\*
msttcorefonts-2.0-2.noarch
I couldn't find 'Helvetica LT Std' in any of my Windows Virtual
Machines. So I found it on the web, ran it through Virus Total,
and installed it manually. This was probably as bad choice
of fonts for the IRS to have chosen. Boy do these
forms look pretty now (the fill in portions).
-T
Here are my notes on how to manually install fonts in Fedora and
Red Hat, Scientific Linux, CentOS:
Scientific Linux 6.x: How to manually install a font(s) globally:
Reference:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/7032/how-do-i-install-fonts-in-fedora/
Note that "#" is "root's" prompt.
1) download the font(s) and place them in a directory inside
/usr/share/fonts
Note: 'Helvetica LT Std' example:
# cd /usr/fhare/fonts
# mkdir "Helvetica LT Std"
Download and unzip contents into the above directory
Helvetica:
http://www.ephifonts.com/free-helvetica-font-helvetica-lt-std-complete.html
2) Run "fc-cache -v" to make the system aware of the newly installed
font(s).
To force the re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files,
overriding the timestaMișump checking, you can issue the -f flag.
# fc-cache -f -v
...
/usr/share/fonts/Helvetica LT Std: caching, new cache contents:
20 fonts, 0 dirs
...
3) double check with fc-match:
$ fc-match 'Helvetica LT Std'
HelveticaLTStd-Roman.otf: "Helvetica LT Std" "Roman"
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