Dear ConTeXtnicians, I have found a problem constructing my front and back cover for a user manual. In the program below I use the setupexternalfigures line below setting the maximum horizontal and vertical size in in order to simplify the inclusion of figures. It has the undesired side effect of reducing the size of the front and back cover. In the program below the first page of the document is smaller than the subsequent page. \showframe \setupexternalfigures [maxwidth=\textwidth,maxheight=0.8\textheight] \starttext \startMPpage StartPage; fill Page withcolor 0.5white; StopPage; \stopMPpage \input tufte \stoptext Clearly I can set this line after the first page. Presumably I need to set the line to \pagewidth and \pageheight before the back cover. A further surprise is that the body page background does not seem to be effected. \startuseMPgraphic{bg} StartPage; fill Page withcolor 0.5white; StopPage; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[page][\useMPgraphic{bg}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=page] regards -- Nigel