Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

On 03/06/2017 02:42 PM, David W Noon wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:50:33 -0700, Thelma (thelma@×××××××××××.com) wrote
> about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in
> <169d7ee4-a369-de54-3f4c-daafc54747c8@×××××××××××.com>):
>
>> On 03/06/2017 01:33 PM, David W Noon wrote:
>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:27:23 -0700, Thelma (thelma@×××××××××××.com) wrote
>>> about "[gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in
>>> <527dc91e-d02e-4dc8-8f22-d24d16018512@×××××××××××.com>):
>>>
>>>> Which package contain "Helvetica" font?
>>>
>>> app-text/htmldoc
>>
>> No, "htmldoc" doesn't have any helvetica fonts
>
> Actually, it does. Here is an extract from the qlist for that package:
>
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica.afm
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica-Bold.afm
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica-BoldOblique.afm
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica-BoldOblique.pfa
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica-Bold.pfa
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica-Oblique.afm
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica-Oblique.pfa
>  /usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica.pfa
>
>> flpsed - is hard coded use: FL_HELVETICA
>
> That would seem to be a particular recension of Helvetica. The one
> supplied by htmldoc is the Adobe original. Note that Helvetica is also
> called Swiss.

OK, you proved me wrong :-/
I've emerge htmldoc copied their fonts to /usr/share/fonts/Helvetica/
unmerged htmldoc
run: fc-cache -fv

But the fonts in "flpsed" are still same looking (not impressive).

I've the following fonts installed:
ll /usr/share/fonts/Helvetica/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31741 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica.afm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31586 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica-Bold.afm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31896 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica-BoldOblique.afm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77039 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica-BoldOblique.pfa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70803 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica-Bold.pfa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39520 Mar  6 13:04 'Helvetica Neu Bold.ttf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39520 Mar  6 13:04 HelveticaNeueBd.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38016 Mar  6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue BlackCond.ttf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39568 Mar  6 13:04 HelveticaNeueHv.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43148 Mar  6 13:04 HelveticaNeueIt.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40104 Mar  6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Light.ttf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40104 Mar  6 13:04 HelveticaNeueLt.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39656 Mar  6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Medium.ttf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39656 Mar  6 13:04 HelveticaNeueMed.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40144 Mar  6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Thin.ttf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41180 Mar  6 13:04 HelveticaNeue.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32044 Mar  6 13:56 helvetica-normal-58bdcca3a92e8.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32097 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica-Oblique.afm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75595 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica-Oblique.pfa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70952 Mar  6 16:24 Helvetica.pfa

So I don't know what fonts it is looking for.

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Thelma