Helvetica is available in one form or another on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Under Windows, I can see it from Microsoft Word. On the two UNIX platforms, I can find it with xlsfonts | grep -i helvetica; the name seems to be adobe-helvetica.
But the JDK can’t find it! It’s not listed from GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts(), nor does it come up when I call new Font(‘Helvetica’, …) [using several name variants, either, like ‘Adobe Helvetica’]; instead I get defaulted to ‘Dialog’ font and it seems to name it with whatever name I used.
This font is available on every relevant Java target platform today. How do I use it from within Java?
I realize that this isn’t actually answering the question, but…
On Windows, Helvetica isn’t always installed. My machine at work (the one I’m using now) doesn’t, despite having Microsoft Office XP.