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My business uses Helvetica as their standard font. When I use Helvetica in Storyline 2, it looks fine while creating, but once I preview or publish it looks odd. Some of the letters look scrunched, while others look taller. Any ideas?


I've noticed something similar with Univers Condensed 57. In my case if I apply bold to text it appears correctly in the work screen but when published it loses its "boldness" but seems to retain the extra letter spacing that the bold font style would have used. I want to test this some more but clearly the bold is not applying as it should when published or previewed.


I don't have helevetica to test this out - but as Wendy mentioned you'll want to check your DPI setting first. Also, when viewing the published output you'll want to ensure you're testing it within the intended environment as described here.


Our team has been having the same font rendering issue with Helvetica Neue, our corporate font. I've submitted a ticket to support but they were unable to reproduce, though about 4 developers here are experiencing the same issue on different machines. We just had to revert to Arial in the meantime. It doesn't happen in Storyline 1, so I think it is an issue with how SL2 handles text.


One thing I tried today that seemed to help is this: Publish your file, then go to the published folder. Open the story_content folder and find the file named FontFactory.swf. Rename or delete that file. Then re-preview your file. It will look a lot better.


I noticed this file is not in the Storyline 1 output. I'm thinking it is used to embed fonts for the Flash output, but I could be wrong. When it's not there, the font doesn't have the weird character scaling issues. I haven't tested it on another machine yet though (one that doesn't have Helvetica Neue installed on it.)


I see that in your case, you were able to share the .story file and the Helvetica Neue font with Regil, and even with the font installed he wasn't able to replicate the behavior - and shared a copy of the published output with you. Were you able to confirm that you were working with local project files and look into conducting the repair here?


Yes, I am working locally and tried all of the steps in the page you linked to. Still having the issue. There are several other developers working with the same font at my company--they are reporting same issue as well.


I'm just following back up and I see that Regil shared the issue with our QA team for additional review. When there is additional information Regil will be able to share it with you through the case and I'll link it to this thread as well so I can provide additional information for users following along.


I have purchased a PC standalone version Acrobat Pro DC for

my windows computer. I cannot get tech support for this version any longer

because it is over 12 months. Here is my issue. I need to install the Helvetica

font to my Acrobat Pro DC program and cannot find how to this.


I deal with a lot of

PDF's. The files are emailed. I put the pdf's on my computer to be edited. Text

is the only thing that is edited, not the pictures. With the original emailed

pdf I cannot edit the file. I have to print the pdf to Adobe before I can make any edits. This is

done by choosing Print, then choosing Adobe, then give it a file name and Save.

This creates a new file that can be edited. All the original material it there.

The original pdf's are in the Ariel font. When the pdf is saved using the print

to Adobe, it USE TO SAVE ALL FONTS TO THE ARIEL FONT. Now the issue is this:

When print to Adobe it converts the entire pdf font to Helvetica, not Ariel any

longer. When I open the editable pdf all the fonts are Helvetica. So, to say I

have a 50 pages to each report in the Helvetica font. Acrobat Pro DC does

not come with the Helvetica font. I cannot find how to install the Helvetica

font to Acrobat Pro DC. Can anyone help. Thank you.


Thank you so much for your response. That explains why I could not get the font to work. You made mention of "tables to equate Arial with Helvetica if no Helvetica is installed." How does a person access these tables and is there any way to make a pointer for incoming Helvetica font to convert to Ariel? Maybe make all incoming pdf's convert to the Ariel font. Is this possible?


If in fact you have a PDF file that calls for display of text using Helvetica, but Helvetica is neither embedded in the PDF file nor installed on your computer, Adobe Reader / Acrobat will substitute Arial for display and print. The same is true for Times and Times New Roman as well as Courier and Courier New.


Perhaps you can post a sample of a PDF file for which you need to do something in order to edit it? That way we can address the heart of your issue. (Contact me via private message on the forums if you need to provide me a pointer to a file location).


With regards to the font equivalence tables, Reader / Acrobat has some simple equivalences built in per above. A much more complex and complete table for substitutions appears in the Windows registry which generally I would not recommend messing around with (you can really muck up Windows' font and text handling if you edit that registry table improperly). Microsoft Office does use that table and if, for example, you were given a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document from a Mac that references Helvetica, Office does substitute Arial for display, print, and PDF creation.


Finally, one of the problems with using the original Type 1 format version of Helvetica (or Times or Courier, etc.) under Windows (as opposed to an OpenType CFF or TrueType font with the exact same name) is that although Windows and Adobe applications still support Type 1 fonts, Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016 as well as some other applications have totally dropped support for these legacy Type 1 fonts even if said fonts are installed.


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


Well, it's good to find out how to eliminate the font errors from XMMS/Eterm, at least. Think I'll do without the 100dpi/75dpi fonts until I can figure out a way to use them without messing up my fluxbox menus/toolbar. I'd rather live with ugly XMMS menus over ugly fluxbox menus.


If you have the 75/100 DPI fonts installed, some applications will automatically select them over other fonts, even though they look quite hideous. IMHO they should simply be removed from XOrg, they eat up almost as much space as all the other XOrg stuff combined and aren't even close to worth it...


How was the font installed? For example, if you have Adobe Creative Cloud or Adobe Creative Suite installed and the font is in the InDesign font folder, then it will only be available in InDesign. I think some other programs handle it the same way.


According to the IT Support guy where I work: "Sometimes a font is packaged for the use of a specific application. The likelihood is that it is not compatible with FileMaker. We can try to install the Helvetica Font for FilMaker Pro 15, but you need to source the download."


@calculu Next question: How important is it to you to actually use Helvetica? On Windows PCs, Arial is one of the default fonts. On the Mac, Helvetica. These two fonts don't look identical, but they are VERY close. Only typographically savvy people can tell the difference.


If Arial is quite similar to Helvetica, this means that my problem of finding the Helvetica for use on FileMaker Pro 15 for Windows is nearly solved.

What I now need to know is this: Which font is best suited for adapting an existing Layout for Online use (i.e. web browsers)


The exact same thing is happening to me... Quark exporting to pdf is not working with helvetica only. It looks like it's some sort of old courier font, but more distorted. Kerning is off as well. Letters are right on top of one another. Only helvetica, strange. Never saw this before.


We have grown so used to thinking that Helvetica is part of the system (as well as the other basic "LaserWriter" fonts, but Apple abandoned the Type 1 versions even before OS X came out in favour of dfont and then TrueType. This caused some minor issues over the years, and many design professionals learned quickly to override the dfont and TrueType versions with the (soon-to-be-sent-packing) Type 1 versions, usually because we use font managers and could easily do that. Well, that time is past as these basic fonts are built into a protected System fonts folder and cannot be disabled, and removing them is even more problematic. And trying to activate Type 1 versions at the same time, even if successful, will cause conflicts and all sorts of trouble, much like what you are experiencing now. Not that it matters, as the Type 1 versions will no longer work soon. There is no "free" . otf replacement for these fonts. Most of us got the fonts bundled with our printers or older Systems waaaaay back in the day. Unfortunately, Adobe no longer licenses these basic fonts anyway (they have reverted to Linotype's control, hence not in Adobe Fonts), so if you want the true Helvetica match we know and love in .otf format, you need to buy the package from Linotype directly, or have previously purchased the Adobe Font Folio OpenType edition that still had them (albeit renamed Helvetica LT Std, etc, to avoid conflicts).

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