Re: Helvetica - International Systems?

FROM : Steve Dekorte
DATE : Fri Nov 22 20:34:01 2002

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Rosyna wrote:
> Ack, at 11/17/02, Philip George said:

>> Does anyone know if Helvetica is 100% guaranteed to be present on ALL
>> Mac OS X installations, no matter what language is the primary
>> language?  Say, for instance, a guy in Japan goes to the computer
>> store and purchases a copy of OS X (Japanese edition) and installs
>> it.  Will Helvetica be installed too, just in case?  I'm thinking the
>> answer is probably yes, but I need someone to definitively answer
>> this before I'll feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

>
> Helvetica, Geneva, Monaco, Courier, Lucida Grande, and some other
> fonts are *required* to exist on OS X. If they do not, bad things
> happen and you can pretty much "blame" the user for it not existing.


A related question: Is there any place one can find free true type
fonts? Every site I've been to that claims to have free fonts turns out
to be a pay site in disguise.

Cheers,
Steve
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