diff --git a/news/changelog-1.7.md b/news/changelog-1.7.md
index 38a7a2aa069..cf22e9fc688 100644
--- a/news/changelog-1.7.md
+++ b/news/changelog-1.7.md
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ All changes included in 1.7:
 - ([#11903](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/11903)): `crossref` configuration like `fig-title` or `tbl-title` now correctly supports multi word values, e.g. `fig-title: 'Supplementary Figure'`.
 - ([#11878](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/11878), [#12085](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12085)): Correctly fixup raw LaTeX table having an unexpected table env with options (e.g `\begin{table}[!ht]`) to be handled as crossref table.
 
+### Quarto PDF engine
+
+- ([#12194](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12194)): More specific checks added in log parsing to automatically find missing fonts.
+
 ## `typst` format
 
 - ([#11578](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/11578)): Typst column layout widths use fractional `fr` units instead of percent `%` units for unitless and default widths in order to fill the enclosing block and not spill outside it.
diff --git a/src/command/render/latexmk/parse-error.ts b/src/command/render/latexmk/parse-error.ts
index 47f0ebb640b..d58e3ef785c 100644
--- a/src/command/render/latexmk/parse-error.ts
+++ b/src/command/render/latexmk/parse-error.ts
@@ -209,8 +209,11 @@ function findMissingFonts(dir: string): string[] {
 }
 
 const formatFontFilter = (match: string, _text: string) => {
-  const base = basename(match);
-  return fontSearchTerm(base);
+  // Remove special prefix / suffix e.g. 'file:HaranoAjiMincho-Regular.otf:-kern;jfm=ujis'
+  // https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12194
+  const base = basename(match).replace(/^.*?:|:.*$/g, "");
+  // return found file directly if it has an extension
+  return /[.]/.test(base) ? base : fontSearchTerm(base);
 };
 
 const estoPdfFilter = (_match: string, _text: string) => {
@@ -231,21 +234,20 @@ const packageMatchers = [
     regex: /.*!.+ error:.+\(file ([^)]+)\): .*/g,
     filter: formatFontFilter,
   },
-  {
-    regex: /.*Package widetext error: Install the ([^ ]+) package.*/g,
-    filter: (match: string, _text: string) => {
-      return `${match}.sty`;
-    },
-  },
   {
     regex: /.*Unable to find TFM file "([^"]+)".*/g,
     filter: formatFontFilter,
   },
   {
-    regex:
-      /.*! Package fontspec Error:\s+\(fontspec\)\s+The font "([^"]+)" cannot be\s+\(fontspec\)\s+found;+/g,
+    regex: /.*\(fontspec\)\s+The font "([^"]+)" cannot be.*/g,
     filter: formatFontFilter,
   },
+  {
+    regex: /.*Package widetext error: Install the ([^ ]+) package.*/g,
+    filter: (match: string, _text: string) => {
+      return `${match}.sty`;
+    },
+  },
   { regex: /.* File `(.+eps-converted-to.pdf)'.*/g, filter: estoPdfFilter },
   { regex: /.*xdvipdfmx:fatal: pdf_ref_obj.*/g, filter: estoPdfFilter },
 
@@ -303,7 +305,7 @@ function findMissingPackages(logFileText: string): string[] {
     packageMatcher.regex.lastIndex = 0;
   });
 
-  // dedpulicated list of packages to attempt to install
+  // dedulicated list of packages to attempt to install
   return ld.uniq(toInstall);
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/latexmk/parse-error.test.ts b/tests/unit/latexmk/parse-error.test.ts
index a3f2b37ff24..3888c636e42 100644
--- a/tests/unit/latexmk/parse-error.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/latexmk/parse-error.test.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,39 @@ import { findMissingFontsAndPackages } from "../../../src/command/render/latexmk
 import { unitTest } from "../../test.ts";
 import { assert } from "testing/asserts";
 
-unitTest("findMissingPackages", async () => {
-  const logText = Deno.readTextFileSync("expl3-aborted.log")
-  assert(findMissingFontsAndPackages(logText, ".")[0] === "expl3.sty" );
-}, {
+function fontSearchTerm(font: string): string {
+  return `${font}(-(Bold|Italic|Regular).*)?[.](tfm|afm|mf|otf|ttf)`;
+}
+
+function assertFound(logText: string, expected: string, file?: string) {
+  assert(
+    findMissingFontsAndPackages(logText, ".")[0] === expected,
+    `Expected \`${expected}\` in \"${file ?? logText}\" but not found.`
+  )
+}
+
+unitTest("Detect missing files with `findMissingFontsAndPackages`", async () => {
+  // No package found
+  assert(findMissingFontsAndPackages("asdf qwer", ".").length === 0);
+  // Mismatched LaTeX support (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto#7417)
+  assertFound(Deno.readTextFileSync("expl3-aborted.log"), "expl3.sty", "expl3-aborted.log");
+  // fonts
+  assertFound("! Font U/psy/m/n/10=psyr at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found", fontSearchTerm("psyr"));
+  assertFound('! The font "FandolSong-Regular" cannot be found.', fontSearchTerm("FandolSong-Regular"));
+  assertFound('! Package fontspec Error: The font "Caladea" cannot be found.', fontSearchTerm("Caladea"));
+  assertFound('!pdfTeX error: /usr/local/bin/pdflatex (file tcrm0700): Font tcrm0700 at 600 not found', fontSearchTerm("tcrm0700"))
+  assertFound('(fontspec)                The font "LibertinusSerif-Regular" cannot be', fontSearchTerm("LibertinusSerif-Regular"));
+  assertFound('! Font \\JY3/mc/m/n/10=file:HaranoAjiMincho-Regular.otf:-kern;jfm=ujis at 9.24713pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.', "HaranoAjiMincho-Regular.otf");
+  assertFound("! LaTeX Error: File `framed.sty' not found.", "framed.sty");
+  assertFound("/usr/local/bin/mktexpk: line 123: mf: command not found", "mf");
+  assertFound("or the language definition file ngerman.ldf was not found", "ngerman.ldf");
+  assertFound("!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file 8r.enc): cannot open encoding file for reading", "8r.enc");
+  assertFound("! CTeX fontset `fandol' is unavailable in current mode", "fandol");
+  assertFound('Package widetext error: Install the flushend package which is a part of sttools', "flushend.sty");
+  assertFound('! Package isodate.sty Error: Package file substr.sty not found.', "substr.sty");
+  assertFound("! Package fontenc Error: Encoding file `t2aenc.def' not found.", "t2aenc.def");
+  assertFound("! I can't find file `hyph-de-1901.ec.tex'.", "hyph-de-1901.ec.tex");
+  assertFound("luaotfload-features.lua:835: module 'lua-uni-normalize' not found:", "lua-uni-algos.lua");
+},{
   cwd: () => "unit/latexmk/"
-});
+})
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