Bear with me, I still got no experience in MetaPost… I’m trying to place a pixel image on a MP page. According to the MetaFun manual this should work: \startMPpage draw externalfigure "mill.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; \stopMPpage And it works with mill.png (copied into my test dir), but with none of my other PNGs, I always get ! Arithmetic overflow. <*> ...xternalfigure "dodo.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; ; Uh, oh. A little while ago one of the quantities that I was computing got too large, so I'm afraid your answers will be somewhat askew. You'll probably have to adopt different tactics next time. But I shall try to carry on anyway. [1] 1 \startMPpage 2 draw externalfigure "dodo.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; 3 >> \stopMPpage 4 The same image file works with \starttext \externalfigure[dodo][height=8cm] \stoptext What’s wrong? The image is here: https://github.com/fiee/ConTeXt/raw/master/tshirts/img/dodo.png Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD