I have a problem with Helvetica55Roman. It is a mandatory font specified 
by a client for use in FileMaker.

I have installed a free version, form several sources; seems to be 
exactly the same file ( as one might expect); all with same results. The 
'o' character does not display, and printing a pdf from the app raises a 
error message:


<<
A font in this document is not licensed for embedding without permission 
from the legal owner or font vendor. Depending on the font, blank text 
may appear in the output file.
 >>



I am happy to buy an appropriate whatever; but from where?

cortical <cb@corticaldata.com.au> wrote:

> I have a problem with Helvetica55Roman. It is a mandatory font specified
> by a client for use in FileMaker.
> 
> I have installed a free version, form several sources; seems to be 
> exactly the same file ( as one might expect); all with same results. The
> 'o' character does not display, and printing a pdf from the app raises a
> error message:
> 
> 
> <<
> A font in this document is not licensed for embedding without permission
> from the legal owner or font vendor. Depending on the font, blank text
> may appear in the output file.
>  >>
> 
> 
> 
> I am happy to buy an appropriate whatever; but from where?

Ask your client where they got it from. It may be part of a licensed
suite of fonts that is not available for download via the Internet,
either free or paid. If it is old enough, it might not even be mentioned
on the Internet and was only ever supplied on floppy or CD, for example.

If all else fails, you may need to get a copy of the font from your
client.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz

In article <jgn4ns$1cq$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
 cortical <cb@corticaldata.com.au> wrote:

> I have a problem with Helvetica55Roman. It is a mandatory font specified 
> by a client for use in FileMaker.
> 
> I have installed a free version, form several sources; seems to be 
> exactly the same file ( as one might expect); all with same results. The 
> 'o' character does not display, and printing a pdf from the app raises a 
> error message:
> 
> 
> <<
> A font in this document is not licensed for embedding without permission 
> from the legal owner or font vendor. Depending on the font, blank text 
> may appear in the output file.
>  >>
> 
> 
> 
> I am happy to buy an appropriate whatever; but from where?

Have looked at the offering at Linotype:

<http://www.linotype.com/45454/NeueHelveticaPro55Roman-product.html>

I discovered the right click contextual menu in Font Book, selecting the 
Font, right click contextual menu has a Validate Font option, and this 
reports a warning under Warnings or Errors for 'kern' table structure 
and contents; and under 'No Warnings or Errors' another 15 parameters 
that are ok.


I downloaded the same (free) font from a fourth source, and this has no 
errors under Font Book. TrueType as initially.


The OS level Print as PDF from File menu worked without error with the 
dodgy font instance from LibreOffice, TextWrangler and also FileMaker.

While FM's scripted save record as PDF resulted in the font display 
error ( no 'o' character) and error/license message result form FM's 
inbuilt scripted Save records as PDF.


thanks for the suggestions, and particularly the point to Linotype.