[Tugindia] Lucid, Helvetica: pdfscreen

Radhakrishnan CV cvr at river-valley.org
Fri Jun 20 09:22:27 CEST 2003


>>>>> "Rai" == H S Rai <hsraidce at iitr.ernet.in> writes:

    Rai> 1) When I tried to use lucidabr font using pdfsceen, I got
    Rai> errors (see below signature) and acrobat could not open
    Rai> resulted pdf file. What can be problem.

You don't have the fonts in your system. 

    Rai> 2) Is it possible to use `Helvetica' font in LaTex +
    Rai> pdfscreen? Though it appears to be very common font, and on
    Rai> searching CTAN, it give packages like `zefonts' and
    Rai> `marvosym', but I could not find a way to use Helvetica
    Rai> font. Any pointer?

\usepackage{times} in the preamble and \sffamily just after your
\begin{document}.

Alternately, after \usepackage{times} line, redefine \sfdefault to phv
with a command:

 \renewcommand\sfdefault{phv}

    Rai> Macros / PD Warning: pdflatex (file lbd.pfb): cannot open
    Rai> Type 1 font file for reading

Best.

Radhakrishnan


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