Problems with fonts

As happens from time to time, MiKTeX's installation of the fonts doesn't update the postcript fonts database, in particular psfonts.map & friends. These are to be found in C:\Users\<Your personal account>\AppData\MiKTeX\2.9\dvips\config and in C:\Program Data\MiKTeX\2.9\dvips\config.

In order to update these files, you just have to launch:

initexmf --mkmaps (or updmap)

(and additionally --verbose, if you want to read what happens) from the command line.

Forgotten: 1) if you want all those changes work for any user, you also should launch from the command-line as administrator:

initexmf --admin --mkmaps (or  updmap --admin)

This command updates psfonts.map & friends in C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\…, thus giving access to the font for every user.

2) It also may happen that MiKTeX forgets to mention the font in a file named updmap.cfg, which is located in C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\config\. Mentioning the font in updmap.cfg is required for the procedure to work. If this is the case, you should edit/create updmap.cfg with the following command-line:

initexmf --edit-config-file updmap

and add two lines, say in your case:

#ccicons
Map ccicons.map

If the following error occurs:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file md-chr7v): Font md-chr7v at 578 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

then just add \pdfmapfile{=md-chr7v.map} to the .tex file. courtesy: @UlrikeFischer

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