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I got a problem after upgrading to MacTeX 2013 today. When I try to produce a pdf file with pdflatex I get an error like this:

mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for pfrr8r. mktexpk: perhaps pfrr8r is
missing from the map file
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ** WARNING ** Could not locate
a virtual/physical font for TFM "pfrr8r"...

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: Here is an example of what I am trying to do.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{pfr}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Something goes wrong when I add \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{pfr}.

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  • Welcome to TeX.SE! Please post an MWE (minimum working example) that generates the problem you're encountering. The information you've provided so far doesn't really permit making any kind of specific diagnosis of the problem.
    – Mico
    Jun 23, 2013 at 20:37
  • Is the pfr font installed in your local texmf folder?
    – Alan Munn
    Jun 23, 2013 at 21:14
  • Well, it is installed in my texmf-local folder under /usr/local/texlive/. But I don't see any texmf folder in my new 2013 folder under /usr/local/textlive/, though I think there should be one since there is one for 2012. Can I just copy & paste texmf from 2012 to 2013?
    – universalis
    Jun 23, 2013 at 21:18
  • Hmm. That should have worked, I think. Don't copy and paste from one year to another. In a terminal window, what does kpsewhich updmap.cfg return? P.S. If you preface your comment with @AlanMunn I'll be notified of the new comment.
    – Alan Munn
    Jun 23, 2013 at 23:54
  • @AlanMunn It returns /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg.
    – universalis
    Jun 24, 2013 at 8:16

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Font map management changed with TeX Live 2012. For fonts residing in TEXMFLOCAL (default location /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local) one should have a file called updmap.cfg with the pointers to the map files. Its location should be

$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap.cfg

which is, if you have a standard distribution,

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg

Here's mine:

Map mtpro2.map
Map ugm.map
Map zgm.map
Map dayroman.map
Map stix.map
Map lucida.map

After creating the file and populating it with the pointers to the desired map files, run

sudo mktexlsr
sudo updmap-sys

and the business should return in synch.

This assumes you never run updmap (without the -sys suffix).

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