Hello, draftmode in DVI mode ===================== the command line option --draftmode or the setting \pdfdraftmode=1 is not working in DVI mode, it is silently ignored. IMHO the best solution would be if --draftmode or \pdfdraftmode=1 is also respected in DVI mode. Otherwise a warning or error would be nice, e.g. * \pdfdraftmode cannot be used in DVI mode. Invalid value ============= BTW, setting \pdfdraftmode to an invalid value generates an error, but quite late and with wrong text: % pdftex --ini \catcode`\{=1 \catcode`\}=2 \pdfdraftmode=-1 \par \def\space{ } \immediate\write16{% \string\pdfdraftmode\space with invalid value: \number\pdfdraftmode } \shipout\hbox{} \end Result: (./test.tex \pdfdraftmode with invalid value: -1 ! pdfTeX error (setup): \pdfdraftmode can only be changed before anything is written to the output. l.10 \shipout\hbox{} ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Transcript written on test.log. Yours sincerely Heiko Oberdiek --