Try again .. this time look for Helvetica Oblique. Sans-serif fonts use
'oblique' rather than 'italic' as their name for the font-on-a-slant.
<woffle>
FYI, the word 'Italic' means 'of-Italy'. When Guttenberg first developed
movable type, each printer developed their own type styles (they were
cast from hand carved formes). The Italian printers developed a type
style that was designed to look more like common hand writing than the
more upright style of the monks whose writing was the inspiration for
all early type (Guttenberg wanted his books to have the same look as the
monks books in order to increase the take-up of the new technology).
Over the years things have changed considerably. The modern typefaces we
have today (like Helvetica, named for Geneva in Switzerland -- thus the
similar look of the Helvetica, Geneva and Swiss fonts) were designed to
have a more machined look. So their naming is the follows suit: rather
than the romantic 'italic'* name, they were given the more 'industrial'
name 'oblique'.
* The phrase 'romantic italic' is an interesting phrase as Romantic
literally means 'Of Rome', or more generally 'of the roman empire'. Thus
we refer to languages of the former Roman Empire as the 'Romantic
Languages'.
</woffle>
Cheers!
Rick Measham
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:15, Tim Turner wrote:
>
> Thanks Shawn.
> I checked that and there is no Helvetica italic... Does anyone know why or
> am I missing it? I'm substituting Verdana italic for now, but am still
> wondering why there is no helvetica italic.
> -Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Corey
> [mailto:shawn.corey-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:45 PM
> To: perl-text-pdf-modules-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Fonts installed?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> A list of the corefonts is at: perldoc
> PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont
>
> --- Shawn
>
> On Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 04:32 PM, turnertim wrote:
> > How do I tell what fonts are installed on our system for use by
> > PDF::API2? Or is there a list somewhere of the basic ones. I tried
> > Helvetica-Italic and I get an error, but Helvetica-Bold and Helvetica
> > work fine.
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