DuCharme, Bob (LNG) wrote:
Here's some interesting historical background from a typographer type (no
pun intended) who clearly gets all worked up over the issue:
http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
Bob DuCharmewww.snee.com/bob bob@
snee.com see
Here's some interesting historical background from a typographer type (no
pun intended) who clearly gets all worked up over the issue:
http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
Bob DuCharmewww.snee.com/bob bob@
snee.com see http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for
info on book
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Subject: Re: FOP Helvetica - is it really Arial?
AFAIK the standard fonts specified in the PDF spec match the base 14
fontset of PostScript which includes Helvetica, Times, Courier, Symbol
and ZapfDingbats. Acrobat 3.x, I think, used Helvetica and Times.
Current versions include Arial
AFAIK the standard fonts specified in the PDF spec match the base 14
fontset of PostScript which includes Helvetica, Times, Courier, Symbol
and ZapfDingbats. Acrobat 3.x, I think, used Helvetica and Times.
Current versions include Arial. Helvetica is then replaced by ArialMT.
Furthermore, I've
Font Gurus,
There's a debate raging in our company right now about the use of Arial and
Helvetica in FOP produced PDF. After careful examination of both fonts, I
can see absolutely no difference, even though Helvetica has minor but
distinguishable differences from Arial.
I'm using the