Font oddity

[Klaus Mueller]

Hello Tim,

> WinXP
> my WINDOWS/Fonts folder does not contain any Helvetica fonts

Installed/registered/activated fonts does not have to be
located in the windows fonts folder. They can be located
anywhere on your drives.

Open your registry (start menu > Run > regedit) and inspect
the entries in
  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\
   Type 1 Installer\Type 1 Fonts"
and also in
  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\
   Fonts".
Any according entries here?

If not:
Although the original "Helvetica" might be provided either
by "resident" printer fonts from your printer driver or by
any legacy mapping entries to Arial in
  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\
   FontSubstitutes",
Helvetica Narrow and Condensed are probably not.
Anyway: Try changing your default printer in the system control
and/or your current printer in your application (e.g. to Adobe
Acrobat) and check whether those fonts are still available.

Kind regards,
Klaus


--- Original Message ---
From: Tim Pann
Date: 04.03.2011 16:19
> Hello,
> 
> Using FM 9 unstructured on WinXP, Office 2007.
> 
> This may not be a Framemaker question, but I'm not sure where to go for
> an answer and you folks are all so darned smart. :)
> 
> Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, and Helvetica Condensed all show up on my
> list of fonts in Frame (and I use Helvetica frequently). However, my
> WINDOWS/Fonts folder does not contain any Helvetica fonts. What's more,
> I have a little app called FontList that displays all resident fonts in
> a web browser, and none of them show up there either.
> 
> The fonts are also available in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. They are
> NOT showing up in Visio, Photoshop CS2, or Illustrator CS2.
> 
> Where is Helvetica coming from? I didn't buy it and I've no idea how it
> got on my computer.
> 
> Thank you,
> Tim