[pdftex] pdfLaTeX in SuSE 8.1: fuzzy fonts

[Roger Price]

My apologies for what must be the all-time FAQ - I'm running SuSE 8.1 
with the teTeX and pdfTeX packages loaded.  The pdfTeX package 
includes PostScript fonts for Computer Modern, but pdflatex still 
produces fuzzy fonts in Acroread. 
 
In this SuSE distribution, the files psfonts.map, ps2pk.map and 
pdftex.map are built by shell script updmap.  This script contained 
 
################################################### 
# Set to true to use postscript type1 versions for 
# fonts with existing metafont versions. 
################################################### 
type1_default=false 
 
so I set "type1_default=true", and re-ran updmap.  The .pfb files are 
available: typing "kpsewhich cmr10.pfb" gives 
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb 
 
Following the hint in [1], I ran "latex myfile.tex" and then  
"dvips -Ppdf myfile -o myfile.ps" and saw no error message about 
a missing configuration file. 
 
The pdflatex output in myfile.log lists the 23 .pfb fonts that were 
found: 
... 
</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt10.pfb>  
... 
and the 31 `EC' fonts that were not found, leading to .pk use: 
... 
</var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/ecrm1200.600pk> 
... 
 
Are these missing `EC' fonts the problem?, or is it something else? 
Following the hint in the LaTeX Companion 7.5.1, I specified 
\usepackage{t1enc} but this had no effect. 
 
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. 
Roger 
 
[1] http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-type3