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Thanks for the hint. I never thought about installing pstoedit. I just noticed long time ago that I was unable to make such fancy things, but I thought I was simply to stupid to understand the manual :(.

thanks for not blaming the stupid manual -)

:) .................................. pstoedit.exe - Fehler in Anwendung Die Anweisung in "0x00aee797" verweist auf Speicher in "0x00000000". Der Vorgang "read" konnte nicht auf dem Speicher durchgeführt werden. .................................. Seems like someone had problems using pointers in C, but I don't know.

here i have the following versions:

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pstoedit pstoedit: version 3.33 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan 6 2003 - release build) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2003 Wolfgang Glunz

pstoedit: version 3.40 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan 6 2005 - release build) Probably this is the problem? Maybe I can try with an older version, but I don't have it. I tried with 3.31 which resides in CTAN, but this is not compliant any more with the new version of gs. I tried a conversion ps -> mpost with some random file and with filename-mpgraph.1 and it worked OK. I can't reproduce crash except by running texexec on the posted document.

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gswin32c --help AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18)

I had 8.11 and replaced it with 8.51, but no difference. It crashes only in the first run. The second run goes OK. Once I run texutil --purgeall, it crashes again.

For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.51/doc/Use.htm. Report bugs to bug-gs@ghostscript.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm.

I doubt that the problem lies in GS, but everything is possible.. If anyone would like to test the version 3.40 on the posted document and if there are downloading problems, please mail me. I can get no older version to test. Although it crashes, the resulting PDF file after 2 runs seems to be OK. Mojca