A font-embedding issue puzzles me. First I make a metapost figure that uses plain tex for the label, so it uses cmr10. Then I include it in a context document to get a .ps file. The problem is that the label shows up in Courier (which ghostscript uses when it cannot find the font, I think). Here is the test.tex \starttext \externalfigure[fig.1] \stoptext and this fig.mp beginfig(1) label(btex hello etex, origin); endfig; end The commands are: mpost fig texexec --ps test gv test.ps The resulting fig.1 has these lines: %*Font: cmr10 9.96265 9.96265 65:912 ... (hello) cmr10 9.96265 fshow and test.ps has %%DocumentFonts: LMRoman12-Regular CMR10 But there's no cmr10 (lowercase) embedded in test.ps. If I generate test.pdf directly (with texexec test), then all is well. Is there a magic option or map file line that I need? [ConTeXt ver: 2007.03.19 11:20 MKII fmt: 2007.4.12] Thanks for any suggestions! The reason I'm using dvi and ps is that arxiv.org cannot handle ConTeXt submissions directly. A workaround recommended by the arxiv.org maintainers is to submit document.ps with all the source files in a separate directory (but it won't let you submit document.pdf with all the source files, a behavior that the admins say is a bug or 'oddity' but not one that they'll fix soon). -Sanjoy `Intellectual property is intellectual theft.'