[RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 123, Issue 8

[Michael Doob]

Exactly what are the differences between the Linux and Windows
versions?

Cheers,
Michael

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Michael Doob                    Telephone: (204) 474-9796
Department of Mathematics       Fax: (204) 474-7606
University of Manitoba          email: Michael_Doob at umanitoba.ca
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:54:54 -0500
From: Wyatt Zacharias <wyatt at magitech.ca>
To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable at muug.mb.ca>
Subject: [RndTbl] PDF Font help
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I'm not all that familiar with the typography world, so I'm hoping someone
can lend some insight into a problem I'm having.

We have pdf reports generated by Jasper which are created using the
Helvetica font. My main problem, is a report generated by Jasper on Windows
is slightly different than the one generated by Jasper on Linux. I'm
guessing this is an issue with something other than the fonts, but to be
sure, my question is does the system generating the pdf need the font
installed to use that font? I assume not, since I can inspect the pdf with
Acrobat, or the pdffonts command and it confirms that the font used is
Helvetica.

My second question, is if the pdf is being created properly, would it
render improperly on a desktop that does not have Helvetica installed? If I
need to have the font installed, where can I find plain old Helvetica? As I
said, I'm not familiar with typography, but I can find every variety out
there of helvetica, except straight up "Helvetica".

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Wyatt Zacharias