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Topic: Helvetica vs. Arial pdf font

Posted By: Dezhi
Subject: Helvetica vs. Arial pdf font
Date Posted: 29 Jan 19 at 10:37PM

Hi,

In our application, when we write out text font as Helvetica, it looks the library does it, it show text font

is Helvetica in the pdf file. But in PDF viewer, when I check through document properties, the Helvetica's

actual font is Arial. What should I do to make the actual font is Helvetica not Arial. Our user complained it.

Thanks,

Dezhi Fan

in the pdf file:

7 0 obj

/Type /Font

/Subtype /Type1

/BaseFont /Helvetica

/Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding

n the viewer:

document properties--->font--->Helvetica: actual font:Arial

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 29 Jan 19 at 11:05PM

Hi,

i've tried the windows editor Notepad (with windows 10) choosing the fonts inside.
There isn't any Helvetica font but Arial with several versions.
So i think it's similar to browser behavior: If there isn't the font from the definition a very similar font will be used.
If you want to be sure that the viewer will use the font from your definition you have to embed it inside your pdf. QuickPDF offers functionalities to do this.

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Cheers,
Ingo