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On the linotype.com site, the straight Helvetica font seems to be
called Helvetica Std Roman, so I don't know if buying that would
solve your issue. Even so, you'd also need to buy the Bold and
Oblique versions separately. I've read conflicting reports of
whether this font is included with the MS Office installer disc, so
if you have that, it might be worth a look (it's not installed by
default in any case). The base fonts used to be included with the
old "acroread" program (Acrobat Reader 3 for Linux), but I don't
know if that would help you even if you could find it. More current
versions of Acrobat or Reader don't seem to include them anymore, at
least not in any form that's readily found and installed.<br>
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Sorry I can't be more help.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/03/2015 1:09 PM, Wyatt Zacharias
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After consulting
the manual of pdffonts, I can say that the font is not being
emedded, as shown by the output below, in the "emb" column. </font></div>
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<div><font face="monospace, monospace">[root@tslx99]/shared/pdf#>
pdffonts QE1-473.pdf</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">name
type emb sub uni object ID</font></div>
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----------------- --- --- --- ---------</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">Helvetica
Type 1 no no no 2 0</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">Helvetica-Bold
Type 1 no no no 3 0</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">Helvetica-Oblique
Type 1 no no no 4 0</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So, assuming
Jasper can be made to embed a font in a generated pdf, how
do I get my hands on those three fonts? (Obviously they have
to be purchased that's not the issue)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Everywhere I
look, including <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linotype.com">linotype.com</a>, I cannot seem
to find straight "Helvetica". Is there no such thing as
"Helvetica" and I should actually be looking for something
else? </font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Gilles
Detillieux <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca" target="_blank">grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca</a>></span>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Depending
on how the PDF is generated, the required fonts may or may
not be embedded. Usually, the standard or base PostScript
fonts are not embedded, because they're assumed to be on the
target system's viewer or printer, but non-standard fonts
more typically are embedded. Systems that don't have the
expected fonts should substitute with the closest match,
which may or may not work well depending on how close the
match is. On Windows, the closest match to Helvetica is
Arial, which is supposed to have compatible font metrics (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial</a>).
When it comes to generating a PDF, the system needs to have
the font installed, and it needs to be a font that allows
embedding, if you want the system to embed the font in the
PDF. For non-embedded fonts, I think it just needs the font
metrics, which it should have for the base PostScript
fonts. Many PDF generators have an option for forcing the
embedding of fonts, but that only works for fonts that are
installed and embeddable.<br>
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I'm not familiar with Jasper and how it generates its PDF
output, but perhaps you'll find some helpful tips on this
page:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://superuser.com/questions/39167/how-to-embed-arial-in-pdf-when-pdf-has-helvetica"
target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/39167/how-to-embed-arial-in-pdf-when-pdf-has-helvetica</a>
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On 09/03/2015 11:54 AM, Wyatt Zacharias wrote:<br>
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I'm not all that familiar with the typography world,
so I'm hoping someone can lend some insight into a
problem I'm having.<br>
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We have pdf reports generated by Jasper which are
created using the Helvetica font. My main problem, is
a report generated by Jasper on Windows is slightly
different than the one generated by Jasper on Linux.
I'm guessing this is an issue with something other
than the fonts, but to be sure, my question is does
the system generating the pdf need the font installed
to use that font? I assume not, since I can inspect
the pdf with Acrobat, or the pdffonts command and it
confirms that the font used is Helvetica.<br>
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My second question, is if the pdf is being created
properly, would it render improperly on a desktop that
does not have Helvetica installed? If I need to have
the font installed, where can I find plain old
Helvetica? As I said, I'm not familiar with
typography, but I can find every variety out there of
helvetica, except straight up "Helvetica".<br>
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca"><grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca></a>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/">http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/</a>
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
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