Hi, If scale option for a figure is set, \externalfigure does not honor the width and the height parameters. For example \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm, scale=750] gives a figure which has the usual aspect ratio. I know that settings scale=... along with width and height does not make sense. But, in one of my project, I set \setupexternalfigures[scale=750] as that makes sense for most of the figures, and if I try to use \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm] then the aspect ratio of the figures does not change. Not sure if this should be classified as a bug, but I am posting it here in case anyone else encounters the same issue and needs to know how to override this behavior: \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm, scale=] Aditya