Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ PDF Nimbus Roman No9 L font

[syounis]

daer fellows,

i have a the following problem:

when i generate PDF files using latex and try to edit them with adobe writer i get an error saying that the font is "MVISO+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu" and is not installed on my system and therefore it cannot be edited correctly

can you help me (in at least one of two ways):

1- where on earth can i download this font?
2- i've noticed it's identical to Arial when using Adobe so how can i change this default weard font to Arial in latex?

thank you

[localghost]

[…] 1- where on earth can i download this font? […]

Nimbus Roman No9 L is free and should be available from almost every website that offers fonts.

[…] 2- i've noticed it's identical to Arial when using Adobe so how can i change this default weard font to Arial in latex? […]

This font is a serif font thus can't be identical to Arial. Perhaps you mixed it up with Helvetica.


Thorsten

[syounis]

dear friend,

thank you for your comment. but everybody is telling me it's a free font but the links i get give me "close" font names but not the actual font itself

i downloaded and installed several fonts (including tex-gyre termes)

but Adobe acrobat still doesn't recognize the font given by latex

please advise, and if you can provide a direct link or better still upload this font somewhere i'll appreciate it a lot

thank you

[localghost]

I don't know which font format Ad0be Acr0bat uses (OTF, TTF, Type 1 Postscript) and where this fonts have to be installed. At least the OTF version is commercial. The font metrics are available from Ghostscript [1]. But I don't know if this is what you need to edit your documents with Acr0bat.

[1] ghostscript — Revision 12396: /trunk/urw-fonts

[Montag]

If I understand you correctly, there's a very similiar problem discussed in this thread: Latex Times New Roman in word

Concerning Arial vs. Helvetica, just a few very interesting links:
http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/06/a ... helvetica/
http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html
http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/

[syounis]

hi,

dear Montag, i don't know what the words you wrote mean (OTF TTF...etc). what i want is some sort of a solution that will enable me to execute pdflatex (or generate a pdf by any other way with latex, which i dont know) to generate a pdf with any of the standard font for windows (TNR, Arial.....anything) but not their imetations which are irrecognizable by windows software

Regards,

[localghost]

[…] what i want is some sort of a solution that will enable me to execute pdflatex (or generate a pdf by any other way with latex, which i dont know) to generate a pdf with any of the standard font for windows (TNR, Arial.....anything) but not their imetations which are irrecognizable by windows software […]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not what you asked for in your initial post. If you would have said that directly, you would already have the solution. And this solution is to use the Xe(La)TeX typesetting engine which is part of your TeX distribution (like PDFLaTeX). It enables you to use fonts installed on your system (solutions via forum search).

And finally a short glossary.

• OTF: Open Type Font
• TTF: True Type Font

[syounis]

hi,

i tried to run xelatex. but i have the following line of code at the preamble:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

this generates (even when i run xelatex) a pdf with nimbus... font

i tried to insert (instead)

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}

(and installed Pagella font of course) but i get jibrish text and the figures are misaligned....a mess!!(it works fine for a sample code, so the font seems to be installed correctly and working)

i use a PhD template called ActaOulu (from acta oulu university actually) that loads many packages with sans serif family fonts. is this the source of the problem or can't it be?

please advise mates!

[localghost]

[…] i use a PhD template called ActaOulu (from acta oulu university actually) that loads many packages with sans serif family fonts. is this the source of the problem or can't it be? […]

That's for sure. The complete template has to be migrated to XeLaTeX and its font conventions.