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From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Subject: Re: How use helvetica font?
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Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> How use Helvetica font with FreeBSD 6.3-Release ?
> I follow this page 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html) 
> and installed urwfont but I can't see Helvetica font on OpenOffice or 
> Abiword.

The free version is called   Nimbus Sans L.
fc-list also shows aliases.
By the way, it is not a very good sans serif font.

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Michel TALON