The problem of "cannot open font map file" is still there. I deleted all existing context trees from my computer and downloaded the mswincontext.zip (dt. 2006-05-17) from Pragma's website. When I run a simple \starttext Hello World \stoptext file, I get ---------------------- [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-empty.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-euler.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file ] systems : end file test1 at line 3 ) Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 600 not found ------------------------ The resulting pdf has no embedded fonts. All these map files are located in texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ I checked the texmf.cnf at texmf-local/web2c and it says ------------------------------ % fonts, for the moment we also support the old enc/map locations OSFONTDIR = TEXPSHEADERS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/{enc,map,type1,truetype},dvips,pdftex,tex}//;$TEXMF/{etex,tex,pdftex,dvips,fonts/type1}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfm = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdftex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdfetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.xetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvips = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvips,pdftex,}// # TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$backend,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// ---------------------------------------- Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008