Re: FOP Helvetica - is it really Arial?

2002-05-25 Thread Peter B. West
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

RE: FOP Helvetica - is it really Arial?

2002-05-24 Thread DuCharme, Bob (LNG)
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

RE: FOP Helvetica - is it really Arial?

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Moore
] 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

Re: FOP Helvetica - is it really Arial?

2002-05-22 Thread Jeremias Maerki
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