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I get the following error when I try to typeset a beamer document.

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+525/600 --dpi
525 mathkerncmssi8 gsftopk: fatal: map file `cid-base.map' not found.
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for mathkerncmssi8.
mktexpk: perhaps mathkerncmssi8 is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.  ) !pdfTeX
error: pdflatex (file mathkerncmssi8): Font mathkerncmssi8 at 525 not
found  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

But if I remove sansmathaccent.sty from the TeX Live tree, the document typesets fine. Here is a minimal working example.

\documentclass[10pt]{beamer} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{frame}{A very short beamer document} 
$e^{i\pi}+1=0$ 
\end{frame} 
\end{document}
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! On my system it compiles fine. What system and TeX distribution are you using? – egreg May 14 '12 at 20:13
  • this works fine for me \documentclass[10pt]{beamer} \usepackage{sansmathaccent} \begin{document} \begin{frame}{A very short beamer document} $e^{i\pi}+1=0$ \end{frame} \end{document}, perhaps an update is in order – cmhughes May 14 '12 at 20:16
  • Looks as if the map-file has not been activated (probably due to the known updmap/udpmap-sys confusion). Try if it works if you add \pdfmapfile{+sansmathaccent.map} to your document. If yes you will have to find out how to get the map-entries permanantly in your pdftex.map. – Ulrike Fischer May 15 '12 at 07:41
  • Problem fixed. Thanks Ulrike for the big hint. The file typeset fine with \pdfmapfile{+sansmathaccent.map} added. I then ran updmap-sys --enable Map=sansmathaccent.map and still had the problem, but then I discovered a local pdftex.map file, and the problem went away once I removed the local file. Thanks again, everyone. – Alan Simpson-Vlach May 15 '12 at 12:12
  • @UlrikeFischer Would you make an answer from your comment? – egreg Jul 26 '12 at 14:38
  • I had a similar problem. Adding \pdfmapfile{+sansmathaccent.map} worked. Could you please explain how to "call updmap to update the existing local pdftex.map" using Miktex in Windows 10? Sorry for not adding as a comment to the answer, but my reputation is not high enough for posting comments. – CarlosH Jul 30 '18 at 21:55

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Looks as if the map-file has not been activated (probably due to the known updmap/udpmap-sys confusion in a multiuser setup). Try if it works if you add \pdfmapfile{+sansmathaccent.map} to your document. If yes you will have to find out how to get the map-entries permanantly in your pdftex.map.

In miktex the easiest way is to call updmap to update the existing local pdftex.map.

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