Dear all, I've created this. http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photoBook.pdf (it's 5 mB) The cover and the separators in the pages are generated stretching on layers the same image (a pdf generated by Metapost) % cover \setlayer [mybg] [x=0\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight] {\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=1\paperheight,width=1\paperwidth]} % red horizontal separator \setlayer [mybg2] [x=0\paperwidth, y=.45\paperheight] {\color[darkred]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=.1\paperheight,width=\paperwidth]} % gray vertical separator \setlayer [mybg3] [x=.9\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight] {\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=\paperheight,width=.05\paperwidth]} In Preview.app on macosx it's all displayed as expected (this is a png snapshot of the horizontal separator: http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/hbar.png ). But Acrobat displays the separators (the cover is ok) as a sequence of filled boxes. Can it depends on some resolutions setting? Or what? -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle@unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)