> ... >> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 >> ecbx1200 >> >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base >> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 600; ignoring mode. >> mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; >> nonstopmode; input ecbx1200 >> This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 2013) >> >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base >> I can't find the base file `mf.base'! > >> It took a while to get to this point, and I had to install a number of >> font packages from the pkgsrc tex-* collection. I do have tex-ec-1.0 >> and tex-eco-1.3 installed. But it seems like the problem is more with >> metafont, which is completely beyond me. > > Yeah, this looks to me like your setup is attempting to load (or build??) a > font as part of the compilation process. As far as I know, that is not > something that should be required when compiling an Org document > exported to LaTeX with the default options. > > What are the values of your > > org-latex-default-packages-alist > org-latex-packages-alist > org-latex-pdf-process > > variables? And what does the header of the exported .tex file look > like? > > I guess the way to debug this is to remove the packages that are loaded > in the exported .tex file, one at a time, until you discover the one > that is at fault here. (If it's not some particular package, but > rather TeX/LaTeX itself that's trying to use METAFONT, I think you're in > deeper waters...)
Seems like the problem had to do with the combination of files installed by pkgsrc for tetex. I switched from pkgsrc to macports for an unrelated reason, and generation of PDFs from todo lists via LaTeX now just works.
