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