Hi, I tried an example for generating linear text placement. % File text.mp input mp-tool ; % some initializations and auxiliary macros input mp-spec ; % macros that support special features prologues := 2; beginfig(1) draw hlintext.lft(0, 20, 5, 20cm, "@3e") ; draw vlogtext.bot(0, 10, 9, 10cm, "@3e") ; endfig; end; %----------------------------- and compile it using $texexec -mptex text.mp (Output given at bottom) I get the error unknown file type: texmfscripts and the eps file text.1 has "unknown" written all over the place. There is something misconfigured in my system (Windows XP Miktex, updated tonight). Can someone help me to debug the problem. Thanks Aditya ======================================================= Generated eps ======================================================== %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%BoundingBox: -58 -7 309 571 %%Creator: MetaPost %%CreationDate: 2004.11.24:0218 %%Pages: 1 %%DocumentFonts: CMR10 /cmr10 /CMR10 def /fshow {exch findfont exch scalefont setfont show}bind def %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 %%HiResBoundingBox: -57.2854 -6.9185 308.23283 570.38826 -49.53665 -3.45926 moveto (0) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -44.55531 -3.45926 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -4.98134 -3.45926 moveto (0) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -49.53665 138.273 moveto (5) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -44.55531 138.273 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -4.98134 138.273 moveto (0) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -49.53665 280.00525 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -44.55531 280.00525 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -4.98134 280.00525 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -57.2854 421.7375 moveto (1.5) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -44.55531 421.7375 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -4.98134 421.7375 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -49.53665 563.46976 moveto (2) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -44.55531 563.46976 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -4.98134 563.46976 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -24.76833 -6.9185 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow -19.78699 -6.9185 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow 19.78699 -6.9185 moveto (0) cmr10 9.96265 fshow 258.69618 -6.9185 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow 263.67752 -6.9185 moveto (unknown) cmr10 9.96265 fshow 303.2515 -6.9185 moveto (1) cmr10 9.96265 fshow showpage %%EOF =========================================== texexec output ============================================ TeXExec 5.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 unknown file type: texmfscripts metapost : text format : metafun (text.mp (C:\texmf\metapost\context\base\mp-tool.mp) (C:\texmf\metapost\context\base\mp-spec.mp) [1] metafun 2004-5-21 18:40 ) 1 output file written: text.1 Transcript written on text.log. second MP run needed : 40 tex labels found metapost to tex : text executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tmpgraph output : dvips interface : en options : once current mode : none This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) output format initialized to DVI entering extended mode (tmpgraph.tex ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.28 fmt: 2004.11.24 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! color : palette rollover is available system (E-TEX) : [line 1021] system (E-TEX) : [line 1076] ) system : cont-old loaded (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (C:\texmf\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme fonts : [berry] [ec] [] (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-syn.tex) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-enc.tex) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-siz.tex) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-map.tex) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-spe.tex) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-exa.tex) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->default:default->1->2:2 uk->default:default->2->2 :2 de->texnansi:texnansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2: 2 fr->ec:ec->6->2:2 es->default:default->7->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 i t->ec:ec->9->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->10->2:2 nl->ec:ec->11->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : tmpgraph.top loaded (./tmpgraph.top specials : loading definition file dvi (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-dvi.tex ) specials : tex loaded specials : loading definition file ps (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-ps.tex) specials : tex,postscript loaded specials : loading definition file tr (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-tr.tex) specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded ) systems : end file tmpgraph at line 1 ) No pages of output. Transcript written on tmpgraph.log. return code : 0 run time : 0 seconds metapost : text format : metafun (text.mp (C:\texmf\metapost\context\base\mp-tool.mp) (C:\texmf\metapost\context\base\mp-spec.mp) [1] metafun 2004-5-21 18:40 ) 1 output file written: text.1 Transcript written on text.log. total run time : 1 seconds