Hi, If I put the Dna-SNP.svg file in the current directory, it works fine: \starttext %\setupexternalfigures[directory=figure] \externalfigure[Dna-SNP.svg] \externalfigure[Dna-SNP.png] \stoptext If I put the Dna-SNP.svg file in the figure subdirectory, then it broke: \starttext %\setupexternalfigures[directory=figure] \externalfigure[Dna-SNP.svg] %\externalfigure[Dna-SNP.png] \stoptext And If I convert the Dna-SNP.svg in the figure subdirectory into Dna-SNP.png, and comment the .svg line, while uncomment the .png line, it works again. So the problem is that \externalfigure can't find svg files in the path specified by \setupexternalfigures. Dna-SNP.svg is attached in case somebody want to test it.