All, I sent this to OS X TeX list, but perhaps I can get some guidance here? All, After installing MacTeX (textlve2008), mptopdf fails: pstricks $ mptopdf bruce This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.0{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.1{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : bruce.* is converted to bruce-0.pdf + bruce-1.pdf I tried: tlmgr update context No good. Same error as above after update. Any suggestions? david