Horst, I have no clue about your printing issues, but there is an Arial clone available in Latex.
Check out this link: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/arial/ Also, what do you mean by "printing under Firefox"? Cheers, Stefano On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Horst Jurkat <horstjur...@onlinehome.de> wrote: > Hi, > my problem that I cannot solve after x "google" searches: > > I use lyx 2.02 under ubuntu 11.10. In my office I have to use the font > arial. Because this font is not to choose in the standard settings I have > choose hevetica. But when I print the document the text is bad (light); only > when I print it out in pdf-format (with foxitreader) it looks fine. > > Therefore I tried to find a way to use arial.ttf. I installed the newer > texlive version 2011 (full, with xetex and luatex) and found that there are > many fonts (incl. arial.ttf) under /usr/share/fonts/... But after that Lyx > does not show more fonts which can be checked under the document settings. > When I check the box "Non-Tex-Fonts use (via XeTex/LuaTex)" I can choose > many more fonts, also arial, but when I print the document Lyx give me a > document with many other layouts > than checked (the standard text format for new documents) and also with a > bad light character. > > Has anyone an idea what to do or change to be able to use other ttf-fonts or > to print in a acceptable way (like under firefox)? > > Thank you in advance. > Horst > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA
