Hi, we have here a PDF that does it's own ExtraUltraVerbose (ExtraVerbose isn't bold enough): 0.28 w /T1_3 1 Tf 0.0273 Tc 2 Tr 13.98 0 0 13.98 76.08 549.2003 Tm (INHALT )Tj (I.e. set a linewidth and then set text rendering to stroking.) Can this be easily achieved with pdfTeX or would one have to use \pdfliteral? Best Martin