Hi, \starttext \startMPcode graphictext "$e=mc^2$" scaled 10 dashed evenly withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; \stopMPcode \stoptext there is a file *-mpgraph.pdf afterwards and that looks ok, but the mpy file has only three paths so it must be something in pstoedit (or gs) you can consider sending the pdf file to the maintainer (or convince luigi to look into it as he knows gs well) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------