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Subject:Re: Helvetica Font From:Julijan Sribar <uli -at- ZEMRIS -dot- NO_SPAMFER -dot- HR> Date:Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:29:43 GMT
On 17 Jan 1998 21:43:24 GMT, "hm chou" <hchou -at- interaccess -dot- com> wrote:
>I just got a new PC w/ Word 97, and I can't seem to find the Helvetica
>Font. It's not installed on my machine, and it doesn't come on the Win95 or
>Office 97 (SBE) CD-ROMs. I thought this was a default font akin to Arial
>and Times New Roman. Since I write online help, and Helvetica is (at least
>for me) better than Arial, can someone point me to where I can download the
>Helvetica font? Thanks.
>
Dear Hsuan,
AFAIK, Arial should be equivalent to Helvetica; it is only named
different due to some copyright problems.
Anyway, if you are writing online help, you should use MS Sans Serif
font (it is the default font for that purpose).
