Helvetica invisible via GNOME printing

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

When I run gnumeric under KDE and try to print, the fonts labelled
Helvetica, which look fine on the screen, don't print.  They also
don't appear in the print preview.

Seeking a reason, I started up the GNOME configuration tool and went
to fonts.  This lead to Nautilus opening a directory labelled
"fonts:///".  Interestingly, Helvetica showed up there as a .gz file,
along with Charter, Clean, ClearlyU, Console, Courier (all except ones
labelled "Courier nn Pitch"), Fixed, Lucida (some), New Century
Schoolbook, Newspaper, Terminal, Times (but not Times New Roman, which
is TrueType), Utopia.  Every font that I know is postscript is on this
list.

I also don't know where this fonts:/// location is, and curiously
locate Helvetica doesn't turn up any .gz files.  I realize fonts: may
be virtual, and some magic is probably going into displaying the font
name.


Any suggestions how to straighten this out?

I'm running basically testing.