[Tex/LaTex] Can’t find LaTex font phvb on mac

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I was compiling a latex document on mac osx and getting this error:

This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf phvb
! I can't find file `phvb'.
<*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input phvb

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input phvb

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: phvb.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input phvb' failed to make phvb.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font \nipstenhv=phvb at 8.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
l.45 \font\nipstenhv  = phvb at 8pt

Where can I get this font for Mac OSX?

Best Answer

The reason this happened was that I had installed just the mactex-basic (Basic-Tex), and that does not install the URW "Base 35" font pack for LaTeX (which includes helvetic) package by default.

To fix either run

sudo tlmgr install helvetic

or install package helvetic using the TeX Live Utility from http://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/

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