Stephan Hennig wrote:

> the attached example with xinitials works as long as neither graphicx
> nor xcolor is used.  Loading any of those packages (and possibly others)
> causes LaTeX to stop with an error, see below.


>> [LoadingMPStoPDFconverter(version2006.09.02).]

This seems to be an issue with supp-pdf.tex and supp-mis.tex.
At least it's running with:

loading:ContextSupportMacros/Miscellaneous(2004.10.26)
loading:ContextSupportMacros/PDF(2004.03.26)

I'm not sure whether that's the correct version number; there's
another in the file:

%D   [       file=supp-pdf,
%D        version=2004.12.16,



Ciao
Andreas