Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Error opening type 1 font file

[justinkearns]

I am editing an old (2005) LaTeX file that I did not author. The file compiles with no errors but the output file cannot be rendered. It does not matter whether I am running latex or pdflatex. I am trying to understand the following error message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

{C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.8/fonts/enc/dvips/fontname/texnansi.enc}{C:/Progra
m Files/MiKTeX 2.8/fonts/enc/dvips/fontname/8r.enc}
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file mtex.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for readi
ng
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

[josephwright]

Can you put a minimal example together: I wonder if this is a MiKTeX bug.

[localghost]

Feeding a search engine with the error message, I may found a possible explanation on the TUG mailing list [1]. Nevertheless an example like Joseph requested would be very helpful.

[1] TUG Mailing List: [OS X TeX] warning: pdflatex: cannot open type 1 font file for reading


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[rf]

{C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.8/fonts/enc/dvips/fontname/texnansi.enc}{C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.8/fonts/enc/dvips/fontname/8r.enc}
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file mtex.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading

the file in error (see quoted text) is mtex.pfb, which is part of
the old mathtime (commercial) distribution (no longer available).

you can get an approximation, for free, from
ctan fonts/belleek/belleek.zip

installation could be a bit of a challenge, but it can be done.

[gmedina]

...installation could be a bit of a challenge, but it can be done...

Captain obvious!