I mentioned this earlier but had only now time to look into it: there appears to be a bug in newtexexec, it bombs out when I try to post- process pdf-files. Here's a log: ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ newtexexec.rb --pdfselect --selection=1 grammatik2.pdf TeXExec | processing document 'grammatik2.pdf' TeXExec | provide ctx file TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | tex engine: pdfetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en TeXExec | progname: context This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./grammatik2.pdf ConTeXt ver: 2005.11.16 fmt: 2005.11.17 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de-

texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr- ec:ec->6->2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 pt->ec:ec->9->2:2 it- texnansi :texnansi->10->2:2 it->ec:ec->11->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:2 nl->ec:ec- 13->2:2 cz->il2:il2->14->2:2 cz->ec:ec->15->2:2 sk->il2:il2->16- 2:2 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:2 pl->ec:ec->19->2:2 pl->qx:qx->20->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : grammatik2.top loaded (./grammatik2.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } l.8 ...??S??h?*??3?HzHP?V??O7?82?J?{???F?|} ????D\0I?/??/? (???"˳0fq...

? ^D ! Emergency stop. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } l.8 ...??S??h?*??3?HzHP?V??O7?82?J?{???F?|} ????D\0I?/??/? (???"˳0fq... No pages of output. Transcript written on grammatik2.log. TeXExec | runtime: 4.721664 And I get a similar error (with apparently some Japanese characters...) when I try to run pdfcombine. Best Thomas