Bug#574676: pdflatex font metrics generation problem when run as a web-server user

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:47 +0800, Bal K Paudyal wrote:
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> *(see the transcript file for additional information)
>  !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ecsx1000): Font ecsx1000 at 600 not found
>   ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Hilmar's comments should help solving the issue of generating pk fonts
as www-data. In general, it is better to not use pk fonts in the first
place, though, especially not in a web service. In your case, 

       \usepackage{lmodern}

should do the trick to only use PostScript Type1 fonts in the
resulting PDF.

cheerio
ralf