Dear folks, can anyone reproduce this? (Live ConTeXt on the garden seems to run into this \faststartcolor thing ... with pdfTeX.) Uncomment the page background overlay and the top bit of the frames' titles will be chipped off ... doesn't happen for the plain vanilla color background on my machine. --- \enableregime[utf] \setupcolors[state=start] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino,30pt] \startMPenvironment \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \switchtobodyfont[palatino,30pt] \stopMPenvironment \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture pic; path a,b; a := unitsquare xyscaled (OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight); pic := textext(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}); setbounds pic to (boundingbox pic) enlarged (BodyFontSize/5); pic := pic shifted (OverlayWidth/2,OverlayHeight+(ypart ulcorner pic)/2); drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled OverlayLineWidth withcolor OverlayLineColor); b := a topenlarged (ypart center pic-OverlayHeight); b := b smoothed BodyFontSize; fill b withcolor white; draw b; b := (boundingbox pic) smoothed (BodyFontSize/2); fill b withcolor yellow; draw b; draw pic withcolor black; setbounds currentpicture to a; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext [FunnyText] [background=FunnyFrame, frame=off, rulethickness=3pt, width=\textwidth] \def\startFrame#1{% \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}% \startFunnyText} \def\stopFrame{\stopFunnyText} \startuniqueMPgraphic{shade} path p; p := unitsquare xyscaled (OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight); linear_shade(p,6,blue,white); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[shade][\useMPgraphic{shade}] %\setupbackgrounds % [page] % [background=shade] %\setupbackgrounds % [page] % [background=color, % backgroundcolor=blue] \noheaderandfooterlines \starttext \showframe \startFrame{Test 1} The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stopFrame \startFrame{Test 2} The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stopFrame \stoptext --- Cheerio, Oliver