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I have a 12 year old, large Latex document with eps figures in it. Nowadays, when I try to translate it into pdf, I get the following error message:

dvips: Font Courier used in file Pictures/MealyAutomat.eps is not in the mapping file.

Any idea how to fix this? Do I just have to install a certain font package?

The figures were created with the 'tgif' program a long time ago. I have just installed the 'tgif' package, and I get:

$ tgif
Fatal Error in OpenFont(): Cannot open the Default(Msg)Font '-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'.
Tgif aborted.
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I have had similar problems with xfig fonts. I have only a 13.04 system here, will check later on a 13.10 at home. TeX (and dvips) mappings for Courier in my system are: 

(0)asus-romano:~/personal/archivio/Tricks% wajig whichpackage /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier
texlive-fonts-recommended: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier

So it seems that the package is texlive-fonts-recommended, which you should have.

Have you tried to convert the eps to pdf manually with something like epstopdf (probably it will give the same error as you have)? Can you see the .eps files correctly in evince or gs?

Another try could be to install the package gsfonts-x11 which, in /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/gsfonts-x11.alias, has definitions for the two fonts you have errors for (at least this could make tgif work --- it does in my 13.04).

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    I have installed texlive-fonts-recommended and gsfonts-x11; it does not help with the warnings. epstopdf converts the eps's without any complaint. I see the eps files correctly in evince and gs. I also see them in the final pdf. Everything is ok apart from the warnings. Maybe I should just ignore them... – ubuplex Jan 14 '14 at 18:21
  • tgif still crashes on startup with the same error message. – ubuplex Feb 03 '14 at 15:48
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Googling for the error, you "simply" have to install the font Courier (which is of property of IBM).

You can install Microsoft Courier New by following the Wiki.

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  • I followed the instructions, but I still get the same error messages. – ubuplex Jan 14 '14 at 14:38
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    And isn't it an error in the Ubuntu repository system when, on a freshly installed Ubuntu, a freshly installed program like tgif crashes on the very first startup? – ubuplex Jan 14 '14 at 15:23
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    The problem is that you do not have installed all the packages that the file (not the program) needs.If you had used free fonts when creating it, maybe now there will be no problem at all! :) But you chose to use proprietary fonts, so you have to install them (as long as Microsoft allows you to do it) ;) – dadexix86 Jan 14 '14 at 16:49
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    No, no. I have not deliberately chosen to use any proprietary font. The Latex document and the eps figures were created 12 years ago with what was preinstalled on SuSE at that time. So what fonts exactly do I need and where do I get them from? I have about 60 eps figures! And apart from that: Even if I try to change them by editing the source files with tgif, as I wrote above, tgif immediately refuses to work on Ubuntu after installation. – ubuplex Jan 14 '14 at 18:11
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    Courier is [not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_%28typeface%29) a property of Microsoft. – Martin Schröder Jan 15 '14 at 11:15
  • @MartinSchröder thanks for pointing that out, I modified the answer :) – dadexix86 Jan 15 '14 at 11:29
  • @dadexix86: You still have it wrong: "Because IBM deliberately chose not to seek any copyright, trademark, or design patent protection, the Courier typeface cannot now be trademarked or copyrighted and is completely royalty free." – Martin Schröder Jan 15 '14 at 11:31
  • This is the License agreement, and the property is of IBM :) http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/X11fonts/X11fonts-14/font-ibm-type1/font-ibm-type1-1.0.3/COPYRIGHT.IBM – dadexix86 Jan 15 '14 at 11:33