[MiKTeX] MikTeX portable not finding Helvetica font

[John H. <joh...@gm...>]

Howdy folks,

I'm trying to help out a friend who is using miktex portable to compile a
beamer document for making presentations. We're compiling one of the
examples that comes with beamer and running into the following error with
pdflatex:


!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file phvr8t): Font phvr8t at 600 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

I checked and he's got the helvetic package installed. Can anyone make any
suggestions about what I can do get him up and running?

-- 
 John M Harrold