hi wolfgang and all, I did configured the pstoedit as you said and generated new metafun.mem. Compilation of makempy complains of process aborted : invalid 'texexec --batch -- once --interface=en --pdf' run I did check pdftops as per requirement of mmakempy.pdf manual. pdftops.exe is not available in miktex/bin/. what does the error message point at. do I have to to install pdftops.exe. or configure from somewhere else. gsview 4.7 does not provide pdftops but pdftotxt3.exe I am attaching the makeMPY generated file. thanks all %---------------------------------- MakeMPY 1.1 - MetaFun / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 processing file : MP-mpgraph.mpo tex format : context requested texts : 1 generating : pdf file processing aborted : invalid `texexec --batch --once --interface=en --pdf' run second MP run needed : text graphics found metapost : MP-mpgraph format : metafun total run time : 1 seconds [MP to PDF] (./MP-mpgraph.1) [1.1{original-empty.map}{original-base.map}{ec-pub lic-lm.map}{ec-base.map}{original-ams-base.map}{original-public-lm.map}] systems : end file MP at line 10 ){ec-lm.enc} Output written on MP.pdf (1 page, 5654 bytes). Transcript written on MP.log. return code : 0 run time : 3 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil %______________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com