Hi, it seems that pdftex and pdfetex currently don't automatically produce pk fonts, when missing. Instead a warning is produced. Walter Schmidt and Frank Küster commented on this in a recent post in de.comp.text.tex ("Re: pdflatex-Fehler mit tipa", Date: Tue Dec 09 18:17:10 CET 2003). The reason seems to be, that in file texk/kpathsea/tex-make.c, function kpse_make_tex() the parameter spec.program_enabled_p always is zero, so that the maketex() function required for pk generation is never called. I don't know whether this is wanted by design. And nowadays in most cases Type 1 fonts are used. But the automatic generation of pk files could be activated by a tiny change in file web2c/lib/texmfmp.c. Here is the patch; the line is borrowed from texk/dvipsk/dvips.c: --- /usr/local/src/tex/pdftex-1.11b-orig/src/texk/web2c/lib/texmfmp.c Mon Sep 15 17:23:29 2003 +++ texmfmp.c Thu Dec 11 00:40:02 2003 @@ -248,6 +248,9 @@ kpse_src_compile); #endif /* MP */ #ifdef TeX +#if defined(pdfTeX) || defined (pdfeTeX) +kpse_set_program_enabled (kpse_pk_format, MAKE_TEX_PK_BY_DEFAULT, kpse_src_compile); +#endif #if defined(Omega) || defined (eOmega) kpse_set_program_enabled (kpse_ocp_format, MAKE_OMEGA_OCP_BY_DEFAULT, kpse_src_compile); Regards, Hartmut