Font installed, compiles to dvi, but fails compiling to pdf. "font at 600 not found"

Question

After having answered this question I thought "hmm, maybe I should actually install that package and see if it's as good as it looks...

So I tried. I downloaded ccicons.tds.zip from here and unzipped it into my ~/texmf

this is a procedure that has worked for me before with siunitx and a couple of other packages, so I thought there'd be no problems here.

But when I try and use the package, I got an error. So I went and had a look at the readme, and it told me to run updmap --enable Map ccicons.map so I did. But I still get an error:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cciconsmktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ccicons.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
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!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ccicons): Font ccicons at 600 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

LaTeX exited abnormally with code 70 at Thu Jan 13 17:39:09

I don't know how to fix this.

If I compile to DVI rather than straight to PDF (that is, if I use auctex's LaTeX mode rather than the PDFLaTeX mode) I can compile the document, but the \ccLogo appears as a capital gamma... Also, when I compile to pdf, it says LaTeX successfully formatted [0] pages but the log file contains the error above.

I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 using the package manager version of TeXlive.

I have similar issues with certain of the TeX gyre fonts installed through the package manager: tgpagella and tgtermes for instance. I get more or less the same behaviour: compiles 0 pages in PDFLaTeX mode, logs an error about font not found (again mentioning "at 600" whatever that means), but I can compile to dvi fine...

I've run just about every version of updmap I can imagine, and since the issue also occurs with fonts installed through the ubuntu package manager, I don't think the issue has to do with that.

Complete log available here (with listfiles)

Answer 1

run

updmap-sys --enable Map=ccicons.map

to make the font known to your system. If your TeX distribution was installed as root, then use sudo. If you had it run before always as updmap (without -sys) then you only have a local pdftex.map in your home directory. You shouldn't mix updmap and updmap-sys runs, when you are a user and administrator on the computer. In this case use always updmap-sys or sudo updmap-sys. It may be nessesary that you have to delete the local copy of pdftex.map if you are in trouble.

my testdoc:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{ccicons}

\begin{document}

\ccLogo
\ccAttribution
\ccShareAlike
\ccNoDerivatives

\end{document}

Answer 2

On Windows 7, running MiKTeX 2.9, I just updated the fonts, by running (as an Admin), the "Update" module (under the "Maintenance (Admin)" folder), and then selecting all possible updates.