Hello everyone, I found a bug in the current ConTeXt Beta with externalfigure. The following minimal example will show you what happens \starttext \externalfigure[cow] \externalfigure[cow][width=10cm] \page \externalfigure[test] \page This text will appear. This text will not appear. \externalfigure[test][width=10cm] This text will not appear. \stoptext The first two \externalfigure-commands (with cow) will give a grey placeholder with 'state:unknown' in it. The third \externalfigure-command (\externalfigure[test]) will work, and the last one won't. In this example, you will get an empty third page and the text after the \externalfigure-command doesn't appear in the pdf. 'test' can be a pdf-file or jpeg-file (I only tested whose types of files). Thanks Jannik