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Jude Petkus

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Aug 5, 2024, 2:54:53 PM8/5/24

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Ihave an OTF package of Helvetica Neue and I had installed it, but every time I opened a file which contained some text using Helvetica Neue, Photoshop or Illustrator displayed that "resolve fonts" screen. All files I downloaded including mockups, layouts, icons and others which were using HelveticaNeue, there wasn't a match with their "helveticaneue" and the one installed on my computer, and those Helvetica Neue variations are always the same.

So, my question: Are there "standard" files for Helvetica Neue? Sounds like every designer in the world uses the same Helvetica Neue (a TTF version maybe) and I just can't find a file that matches the most used one. I downloaded Helvetica Neue from a lot of sources on the internet but they come different, then I have to see that annoying screen asking me to resolve fonts missing.

Fonts are not public property, there are bought, sold and controlled like any other art or tool. If you want the real Helvetica Neue you can get directly from the foundry that created it - -originals-library.html

I didn't know MacOS already came with it, Windows doesn't come neither with Helvetica Neue nor standard Helvetica. It's not about being an "authentic" file or having the original font bought from its founder, it's about avoiding a "missing fonts" notice.

I understand completely, it's a constant problem. Any artwork you receive from a designer should be packaged with the fonts they used so for your immediate problem it may be best to let the designer know you need the fonts. For the long term problem, there's no solution really. You can turn on 'font substitution' but that lends itself to an entirely new set of problems, a major one being having to do typesetting everything from scratch again. There are about 5 billion versions of every font made by random people available for free and then there are the originals, crafted by the foundry.

It depends on your needs. If your just needing to print something submitted to you then all you need is the font the designer used. On the other hand, if your the designer then it matters more and OpenType tends to be more flexible, allowing more typesetting and finessing, alternates, ligatures, etc.

Allowing another designer access to fonts for the same projects and packaging fonts with projects are both perfectly acceptable. Did the files you downloaded include fonts or not? If they did then you just need to install them and use them, if they did not you need to ask them for the fonts so you can finish the project. It's that simple. And no, there isn't just one single standard Helvetica Neue anymore, there is the original Neue Helvetica from Linotype I posted in the very first reply. Others are legitimate remakes or variations, and a lot are knock-offs and pirated copies.

No, you didn't understand. When I say "designer" or "websites", I was referring to websites that everyone can download assets from, like dribbble, freepik, behance etc. For example, I've downloaded a psd with all elements of Bootstrap UI, such as buttons, tooltips etc, but I have seen that who works on a Mac usually uses Helvetica Neue, like you've said me that it already comes with Mac, which is great and Mac fonts are very better than those that come with Windows, I just use Windows because Macs in Brazil cost higher than a Camaro in US.

Anyway, when I download a UI, a mockup, a set of buttons or whatever else, they usually come with Helvetica Neue, so it's a top popular font as I can see. I have around 4 options of versions of Helvetica Neue, but they are not the same when they are installed, I mean, every version appears different on Photoshop fonts list, and when I open a file where Helvetica Neue was used in, Photoshop "prompts" me to resolve "missing" fonts. Like you've said, that's an annoying pain really.

There are differences just between various versions of Helvetica Neue. That was our corporate font, and when we switch from Win XP to Win 8, we had to get a new version what worked with Win 8. Then all my text files had the same problem you're having. I feel your pain, but not sure there is much you can do.

Gotcha. I was under the assumption you were downloading project materials from a firm, agency, etc. So we're right back where we started - it can be a constant problem and there is no solution other than buying a version that you like to use in place of all the hack versions. People make their own fonts all the time and name them whatever they want, there may well be 100,000 versions of Helvetica Neue out there for all I know. Frustrating.

If you're not interested in purchasing it then there is positively no solution for you. You will simply just have to deal with having multiple versions on your machine. I purchased the entire family from Linotype about seven years ago and have never messed with another version since. Linotype: Neue Helvetica font family. Authentic, genuine and a little expensive but worth it.

Yes, I think that there is no better option than buying the original, doesn't matter if is a font, a software or anything else. The problem is that everything in Brazil costs a whole life and after that it's possible that you're still in debt. In summary, I will "resolve" the missing fonts by picking an option for each them which Photoshop says that is not installed, that's the way...

Completely forgot about doing this for you, sorry. Anyway, here are screenshots of of Neue Helvetica installed on this very machine in Photoshop 2017, if these screenshots are NOT what you were after then carefully and clearly explain what you're wanting to see and I'll post it back up.

First image is just FYI, only showing the macOS version in case you were curious. Two other Helvetica Neue families from Linotype are listed immediately below it - 'Helvetica Neue LT Pro' and 'Helvetica Neue LT Std'.

[quote]Please fix your system so helvetica can be found,

this font typically is in the rpm (or pkg equivalent) package

XFree86-[75,100]dpi-fonts or fonts-xorg-[75,100]dpi.[/quote]

Did you try to install this package?

I think I cannot install the first one, either. The error information is the same as yours.

However, after I installed the others listed below the first one, the problem disappeared.

Maybe you can install the all packages below the first one, and then see whether this problem is fixed or not.

A 37-year-old man living in eastern France seroconverted to Rickettsia helvetica in August 1997, 4 weeks after the onset of an unexplained febrile illness. Results of a serosurvey of forest workers from the area where the patient lived showed a 9.2% seroprevalence against R. helvetica. This organism may pose a threat for populations exposed to Ixodes ricinus ticks.

Spotted fever group rickettsiae are gram-negative intracellular bacilli associated with arthropods and transmitted by ticks. The most common clinical features of rickettsioses in humans are fever, headache, rash, and inoculation eschar. Five well-characterized and three recently proposed rickettsioses of humans have been identified in the past 13 years. Extensively studied rickettsioses include Japanese spotted fever (caused by Rickettsia japonica), Astrakhan fever (Astrakhan fever rickettsia), Flinder's Island spotted fever (R. honei), California flea typhus (R. felis), and African tick-bite fever (R. africae). In France, R. conorii, the agent of Mediterranean spotted fever, which is transmitted through the bite of the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus), is the main pathogenic rickettsia and is encountered in the southern part of the country. Recently, "Rickettsia mongolotimonae," R. slovaca, and R. helvetica have also been identified as agents of human rickettsioses in Europe. Other species of unknown pathogenicity--including R. rhipicephali, R. massiliae, and Bar 29--have been isolated from ticks in Europe.

Figure 1. Map of Europe showing the distribution of Ixodes ricinus (1). The areas where I. ricinus is prevalent are shaded in black and the prevalence of R. helvetica in I....R. helvetica has been isolated from Ixodes ricinus collected in Switzerland, France, Slovenia, and Sweden. These ticks, which readily bite humans, are also the vectors in Europe of Borrelia burgdorferi and Ehrlichia phagocytophila, the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. I. ricinus is widely prevalent in parts of Europe (1), including eastern France, and frequently bites humans (Figure 1). Consequently, the potential transmission of R. helvetica by I. ricinus to humans seemed likely, but its pathogenic capacity in this regard remained uncertain until Nilsson et al. demonstrated its role in the development of perimyocarditis and sudden death in two young patients (2).

In this report, we describe a human infectious syndrome in which specific seroconversion against R. helvetica occurred. We also present the results of a serosurvey on rickettsioses conducted in Alsace (eastern France) among forest workers, which showed high prevalence of antibody reactive with this bacterium.

A 37-year-old, immunocompetent man was admitted to a hospital in Strasbourg, Alsace, on August 18, 1997, with prolonged fever, fatigue, myalgias, and headache of unknown etiology. The fever had begun on August l, 18 days after the man walked in a forest near Strasbourg, where he observed numerous ticks but not any tick bites. On physical examination, the physician observed low-grade fever (38.1C) but no rash, lymphadenopathy or inoculation eschar.

A convenience collection of serum samples from 379 forest workers from Alsace, all of whom were state employees, was obtained. These samples had been initially collected as part of a systematic serosurvey organized by the state department of occupational medicine to evaluate for the presence of antibodies to B. burgdorferi. This population was composed of 377 men and 2 women, 20 to 59 years of age; 360 (95.5 %) reported frequent tick bites but were clinically asymptomatic; the remaining 19 reported no tick bites. No questionnaire was administered. After informed consent from the patients, antibodies to R. helvetica, R. conorii, R. slovaca, and "R. mongolotimonae" were determined.