As discussed in < an workaround I am using is converting the font files manually to otf format. Here is the shell script I am using:
for i in {0419,0582,0583,0611}; do
fontforge -c 'open(argv[1]).generate(argv[2])' \
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/c${i}bt_.pfb c${i}bt_.otf;
done
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/courier/
sudo mv c{0419,0582,0583,0611}bt_.otf /usr/share/fonts/courier/
sudo fc-cache -v