phvr7t cannot be found despite having installed psnfss

Question

I wish to use the Helvetica package. I installed the psnfss package with tlmgr (and in a fit of desperation other font-related packages, such as times and ae). However, I still do not have any phvr7t files in my texlive distribution. I do have phvr8g.tfm, phvro8g.tfm, phvr8gn.tfm and phvro8gn.tfm at /texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/metapost/, if that helps.

I used the Mactex texlive-2012-basic installer.

EDIT: I manually installed psnfss, because tlmgr did not copy any font files into the texmf distro. I now have phvr7t.tfm and phvr7t.vf at /texmf/fonts, but Latex can't seem to find them.

Answer 1

If you want a free Helvetica font, I suggest you use the Heros font (with the tgheros package) from the TeX Gyre collection instead of the GhostScript fonts, since the GhostScript fonts recently were reverted to their original versions by URW and the TeX Gyre fonts are highly improved (many more glyphs, improved lettershapes, adapted to Open Type technology) versions of these fonts.

Answer 2

In adding an MWE, I found that the helvet package must be on its own \usepackage command. That is, my problem was the line \usepackage{natbib,caption,fancyhdr,helvet}.

Answer 3

Install package helvetic for phvr7t.tfm using TeX Live Utility. You can find it here