AFAIK, what follow is requested by xpdf. I don't see any constructor for GlobalParams without any parameter. What do you think ? Fabrice diff -ruN -X mswin32\diff.exclude c:/source/TeXLive/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc ./texk.development/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc --- c:/source/TeXLive/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc Fri Mar 12 14:15:52 2004 +++ ./texk.development/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc Sun Mar 14 10:24:34 2004 @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ float pdf_version_found, pdf_version_wanted; // initialize if (!isInit) { - globalParams = new GlobalParams(); + globalParams = new GlobalParams(""); globalParams->setErrQuiet(gFalse); isInit = gTrue; } diff -ruN -X mswin32\diff.exclude c:/source/TeXLive/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc.cc ./texk.development/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc.cc --- c:/source/TeXLive/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc.cc Fri Mar 12 14:47:57 2004 +++ ./texk.development/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc.cc Sun Mar 14 09:56:46 2004 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ exit(1); } fileName = new GString(argv[1]); - globalParams = new GlobalParams(); + globalParams = new GlobalParams(""); doc = new PDFDoc(fileName); if (!doc->isOk()) { fprintf(stderr, "Invalid PDF file\n");