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Can't compile text file because of metafont?
i have a complex thesis template, which i can't seem to compile.
This is the output of pdftex
: 
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/grfext.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg))
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: pdftex
ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/../texmf-local/tex/latex/MinionPro/mt-MinionPro.cfg)

Package microtype Warning: Unknown slot number of character
(microtype)                `\j '
(microtype)                in font encoding `T1' in inheritance list
(microtype)                `microtype.cfg/201(protrusion)'.

(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/gettitlestring.sty))
(./Bishop-thesis.out) (./Bishop-thesis.out) (./abstract.tex
kpathsea: Running mktextfm MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation M for MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1.
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2013)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1
! I can't find file `MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1'.
<*> ...1; nonstopmode; input MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...1; nonstopmode; input MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1' failed to make MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/MinionPro-OsF/m/n/17.28=MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1 at 17.28pt not loadable
: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
                   relax
l.5 {\Large
            Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics}\\

I think the cruicial part is : 
kpathsea: Running mktextfm MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation M for MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1.
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2013)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1
! I can't find file `MinionPro-Subh-osf-t1'.

i already installed Minion Pro following these instructions and i could compile the example file on the very same page.
Maybe it's important : I'm on a mac.

Did try compiling with XeLaTeX ? With fontspecit manages any system font very simply. As you can't use opentype fonts for maths, what I do in such a case is loading fontspec with the no-mathoption, and MinionPro with the onlymathoption.

Looks like you're trying to compile http://www.levbishop.org/thesis/. You need the MinionPro Font, packaged for pdflatex for that. Take a look at FontPro, which is a program, that helps you to convert the OpenType Minion Pro to Type 1.

Do you have the optical fonts (Caption, Regular, Subhead, Display)? I guess not. Remove the opticals option of the MinionPro package loading. Also I can recommend FontPro ;) but if everything works for you, you won't necessarily need it.

@HenriMenke yes.. thats the template i'm trying to compile. I'll try FontPro and will report, as so i have results.

Are there any news here?

I was able to compile it after installing the Font with FontPro
