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do you have

\protectbufferstrue

in cont-sys.tex?

I renamed the file once for some reason (I don't remember why, but I've probably read something about removing the file; my apologises if I accused MikTeX for that).

Now I renamed the file back, (\protectbufferstrue was already there), executed texexec --make -all, but now I get an empty PDF file instead of at least a circle. And even if I delete this line, it makes no change.

Hmm, strange. Please post the complete log to the list(!). And perhaps you can post the relevant lines of cont-sys.tex. Do you have shell-escape (=write18) enabled in MikTeX?

(If I knew what that was ...) :(

I don't know where to look (I don't use MikTeX).

Patrick

I don't like posting garbagge on the mailing list, but here it is: This is my complete cont-sys.tex: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \unprotect \setupoutput [pdf] \runMPgraphicstrue \runMPTEXgraphicstrue \useMETAFUNformattrue \newprettytrue \protectbufferstrue \protect \endinput %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This is my file: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \startMPpage draw textext.origin("x"); draw fullcircle scaled 2cm; \stopMPpage \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% And these are the logs: [probably with something worht pointing out] system(texexec --batch --output=dvips --mpformat=metafun --mptex --nomp --once x-origin-mpgraph)...disabled. .log %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=cont-en 2004.10.2) 15 OCT 2004 05:25 entering extended mode **x-origin.tex (x-origin.tex ConTeXt ver: 2004.8.15 fmt: 2004.10.2 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (C:\Programme\MikTeX\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! color : palette rollover is available system (E-TEX) : [line 567] system (E-TEX) : [line 622] ) system : cont-old loaded (C:\Programme\MikTeX\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (C:\Programme\MikTeX\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (C:\Programme\MikTeX\tex\context\base\cont-sys.tex specials : loading definition file tpd (C:\Programme\MikTeX\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (C:\Programme\MikTeX\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex system (E-TEX) : [line 2253] \ifcsname ) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : fdf,tpd loaded system : x-origin.top loaded (./x-origin.top) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) (./x-origin.tuo) fonts : needs map file: ec-public-lm.map fonts : needs map file: original-base.map systems : begin file x-origin at line 1 systems : randomizer starts with 385210193 system(texexec --batch --output=dvips --mpformat=metafun --mptex --nomp --once x-origin-mpgraph)...disabled. [MP x-origin-mpgraph.1] [1.1] systems : end file x-origin at line 6 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1015 strings out of 66088 14690 string characters out of 724779 440778 words of memory out of 1079542 32633 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 10284 words of font info for 34 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 54 hyphenation exceptions out of 607 37i,14n,34p,286b,454s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s 4 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 300000 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 Output written on x-origin.pdf (1 page, 1008 bytes). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% .tmp %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % x-origin.top \unprotect \def\MPOSTbatchswitch {--interaction=batchmode}\def\MPOSTnonstopswitch {--interaction=nonstopmode}\def\MPOSTformatswitch {--alias=mpost --translate-file=natural.tcx --undump=}\setupsystem[\c!gebied={"C:/mojcam/"}] \setupsystem[\c!n=2] \setupsystem[inputfile=x-origin.tex] \protect %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Thank you, Mojca