What is the file name of Helvetica font used by PSTricks grid labels?

Question

This is related to Herbert's comment in answer for Which one is recommended to get cropped PDF and EPS graphics?.

He said I can use dvips -h hv______.pfb input.dvi to embed font to the resulting PS file. But I don't know which font file corresponds to the font used by PSTricks grid labels.

I have a list of font files with names begin with h as follows, but I don't know which one I must use. :-)

Question: What is the file name of Helvetica font used by PSTricks grid labels?

Note: I am using Windows 7 with TeX Live 2010 installed and my workflow is latex->dvips->ps2pdf. You may need this info.

Answer 1

The Helvetica font is just one of the 35 predefined fonts. You can probably get through by saying

\psset[pstricks]{gridfont=NimbusSanL-Regu}

in your file and then run dvips with the option

-h uhvr8a.pfb

that will load the URW clone of Helvetica which is provided in TeX Live.

Answer 2

\psset{gridfont=helvetica} should work without the additional header using for dvips. I have these fonts in my example pdf:

voss@shania:~/Documents> pdffonts latex6.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
SVYBYQ+helvetica                     Type 1C           yes yes no       8  0
AQAEUC+CMR10                         Type 1C           yes yes no      11  0