Hi there, a few days ago, I reported that $\approx$ got translated into the image =1 this was caused by having \pdfoutput=1 in the preamble, but using normal latex for translation.... Cheers Uli -- Uli Wortmann Fax (Switzerland) (1) 632 1080 Dept. of Geology Fon 3694 ETH-Zuerich http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/bonk.html Visit the SPOC-team at http://www.spoc.ethz.ch