sebastian definitely doesn't like oldstyle fonts ;-) PS yes, typically, Berthold & URW fonts have far too many kerns for a typical tex installation : you need a web2c 7 (you can use pdftex if you already have that on you system) with large texmf.cnf values. You'll notice however that the VPL you get need also an enlarged vptovf... (like the one on Tex live 3) Cheers, Thierry