[tex-live] Real Helvetica?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 21 September 2010 Mark London wrote:

 > Hi - I have an installation of TeX Live 2007.  Is there a way to install 
 > and/or define real Helvetica fonts in TeX Live (in TeX, not LaTeX), such 
 > that when I create a PDF, that the PDF will show that it's using 
 > Helvetica fonts?  Right now when I try use Helvetica fonts, (like 
 > phvb8r),  the font names in the PDF output show up as Nimbus something 
 > or another.  Thanks. - Mark

Unfortunately I have no time to do any investigations myself.
However, the program updmap seems to support this already.  I see code
there like: 

###################################################################
# psADOBE()
#   transform fontnames from URW to Adobe
###################################################################
psADOBE()
{
  sed \
  [stuff omitted]
    -e 's/ NimbusSanL-Bold / Helvetica-Bold /' \
    -e 's/ NimbusSanL-BoldCond / Helvetica-Narrow-Bold /' \
    -e 's/ NimbusSanL-BoldItal / Helvetica-BoldOblique /' \
    -e 's/ NimbusSanL-BoldCondItal / Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique /' \
    -e 's/ NimbusSanL-Regu / Helvetica /' \

I suppose that you can enable "real Helvetica" with updmap --setoption
somehow.  Maybe the LW35 option is what you need, but I'm not sure.
Sorry, I've no time to provide more helpful information ATM, but I
hope that the hint is useful though.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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