Re: Helvetica Font

["Petrick, Emily N" <Emily -dot- N -dot- Petrick -at- JCI -dot- COM>]

     RE: The issue of Helvetica font....

     The original message was:
     >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.
     >Hsuan
     >hchou -at- interaccess -dot- com

     And the reply:
     >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).
     >Hope this helps.
     >Beste regards,
     >Julijan Sribar
     >E-mail: uli -at- zemris -dot- NO_SPAMfer -dot- hr

     I would disagree.  Arial and Helvetica on the surface may appear
     identical, but actually are quite different.  Arial is a TrueType font
     where Helvetica is PostScript.  I've also found that Arial and
     Helvetica space differently, and switching from one to the other in an
     entire document can affect pagination in Word.

     You are correct that Helvetica doesn't come with Windows.  You can
     either buy Helvetica from Adobe, or it will install with Adobe Type
     Manager (which comes with Adobe Acrobat and other Adobe products).

     Emily Petrick
     Sr. Documentation Specialist
     Johnson Controls, Inc.
     Milwaukee, WI
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