[Tex/LaTex] pdfTeX error: cannot open Type 1 font file for reading

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Environment

OS: Mac OS X 10.10.4
TeX Live: 2015 Basic
Editor: Sublime Text 3 w/ LaTeXTools

Preamble of tex file

\documentclass[12pt,MSc,twoside]{muthesis}
% The tex template of University of Manchester

\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{pslatex}

Question

When I compiled the tex file, the following error appeared:

pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ucrr8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading

I checked the log file and found the error:

{/usr/local/texlive/2015basic/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ucrr8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

I found ucrr8a.pfb available to download from CTAN but I do not know where to locate it or do I miss any package?

Best Answer

The Basic scheme is pretty minimal and lacks a lot of packages which you are likely to need, especially if you often compile 'templates' of one sort or another. Even if you don't, you are likely to want to use many of those packages.

Unless disk space is a real problem, it is much easier to just install the full version of TeX Live and then you know that you have (almost) everything you are likely to need.

If that's not an option, you can use the TeX Live Manager (tlmgr or TeX Live Utility, perhaps) to install additional packages on a case-by-case basis. But there are likely to be many, many such cases and this option is, therefore, likely to be rather frustrating.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Conflict between color, graphicx and libertine

These option clashes happen when a package is requested to be loaded on two different positions, like by you and inside another package, but with different options. The package is loaded by the first \usepackage (or its twin \RequirePackage); it isn't loaded again when it is requested again. It simply can't be loaded a second time. Therefore the new options can be activated and previous options might conflict with the second usage. So LaTeX creates an error to report this issue to you.

The way to fix this is to declare the options beforehand using \PassOptionsToPackage{<options>}{<package>}. Then they are used wherever the package is loaded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
    \PassOptionsToPackage{pdftex,usenames,dvipsnames}{color}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{libertine} % most likely loads 'color' itself
    %\usepackage{lmodern} % doesn't load 'color'
    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
    %\bye
\fi
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

I can't test it by myself, because I don't have the libertine package installed.

PS:

I don't think you need to set pdftex manually. Normally packages do a good job recognizing the driver by themselves. Also you might want to use the extended xcolor package instead of color.

[Tex/LaTex] Frutiger font in TexLive 2011 and Lion OS

Did you also execute the command sudo mktexlsr or, equivalently, sudo texhash?

Additional suggestion: Do you maybe have an older version of some TeX installation floating around somewhere on your system? The reason I ask is that the error message mentions /usr/texbin/pdflatex, whereas the executables of MacTeX2011 should be located somewhere under /usr/local/texlive/2011/...

Third and final suggestion :-) Have you specified the T1 font encoding in your TeX program? (I believe the Frutiger fonts from the CTAN only work with T1, and maybe TS1.) If this doesn't work, I give up! Hopefully, others will come up with better suggestions. OK: here's a final suggestion: You should provide a MWE of your problems, so that others can at least try to replicate it.