Hello David, Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:34:07 PM, you wrote: DA> Andreas, DA> First, type: DA> texexec --make --alone DA> and see what happens. Well, after about a minute of tons of lines i get another error message :(. <snip> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF ) ( \localtexmf\tex\context\base\supp-mpe.tex loading : Metapost Special Extensions ! Undefined control sequence. 1.537 \appendtoks </snip> These are the lines 530 to 546, I tried already do mark the specific lines as comment, but then other error messages appear. <snip> \def\stopMPshading {\global\advance\currentPDFshade \plusone \setxvalue{obj:Sh:\currentMPspecial}% {/Sh\the\currentPDFshade\space\the\pdflastobj\space0 R }% \setxvalue{mps:Sh:\currentMPspecial}% {\the\currentPDFshade}} \appendtoks \global\let\currentMPshades\empty \to \MPstartresources \appendtoks \ifx\currentMPshades\empty \else \xdef\currentPDFresources{\currentPDFresources /Shading <<\currentMPshades>>}% \fi \to \MPstopresources </snip> DA> Look in \localtexmf\miktex\fmt and check the dates of DA> cont-en.efmt. Look for a newly updated metafun.mem file. If there is one DA> there, move it to \localtexmf\miktex\mem. I can't find neither cont-en.efmt nor metafun.mem on my harddisk, might it be there went something wrong during the installation? -- Best regards, Andreas Steiger mailto:anstei@ksk.ch