Hi Fabrice, The latest binary you sent me fails on some pdf inclusion in a manual i'm currently upgrading. Is there a way to trap the bug trace in windows? I get this pop up screen which i cannot cut and paste. figures : dimensions of ./cols-002.pdf loaded from figurefile itself ./cols-002.pdf <./cols-002.pdf return code : 65280 run time : 5 seconds It's hard to create a test file because deleting a page changes the location of the error. BTW, the fact that the latest pdftex includes all file at the end Transcript written on error.log. ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-005.pdf etc is a drastic change and presumes that the files didn't change; i happen to have situations where the files are generated run time and therefore change -) not in this case but ... was something changed to the \immediate? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------