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Hi,
I'm trying to get cups up and running. When I look at the error log after printing a page it says esp ghostscript failed because it couldn't find the Helvetica font.
Now I'm trying to hunt it down, but can't seem to find it.
The font packages I already have installed are:
xorg-font-utils
xorg-fonts-100dpi
xorg-fonts-75dpi
xorg-fonts-alias
xorg-fonts-cyrillic
xorg-fonts-encodings
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-fonts-type1
gsfonts
ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-cheapskate
ttf-ms-fonts
artwiz-fonts
font-bh-ttf
And I have enabled bitmap fonts.
I installed the base packages from arch-0.7.1.iso, then updated those packages with pacman and started installing packages from there, so I have xorg 7.
I can't think of any more relevant information, but if I missed something please ask.
Cheers,
Phil
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The Helvetica font should be included in ttf-ms-fonts, afaik.
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I've just downloaded the ttf-ms-fonts package and extracted it and there doesn't seem to be anything there about Helvetica.
However, looking at the filelist for xorg-fonts-100dpi I can see a few files with names similar to helvB08-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz, would these be the files for Helvetica?
Does this mean Helvetica is a bitmap font?
Even though I enabled bitmap fonts, according to the instructions here do I need to run fc-cache before they will be recognised.
I'm not at the workstation right now, otherwise I would try these things before asking again, I want to get a list of things I can try when I get back home
ooh, another thing. When I had arch on an old test machine I had the Helvetica font, (but then I installed as much as possible from the CD for quickness sake) and in xfontsel it came under the adobe font family if that helps any
Cheers,
Phil
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It is in xorg-fonts-100dpi as far as I can make out
running fc-cache fixed everything
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