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Helvetica font

Asked by Ben Koski

I'm running graphite on Ubuntu 10.04.

I recently reinstalled on a new machine, and suddenly my fontName=Helvetica param to the URL API is not working (another font is substituted).

What do I need to install to get Helvetica back? I have no idea where graphite/pycairo looks to find fonts.

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Ben Koski (ben-koski) said : 		#1

Turns out pycairo just pulls fonts from /usr/share/fonts/truetype

Running

apt-add-repository "deb http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid restricted multiverse"
apt-get update
apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

fixes this problem.