Am 03.06.2008 um 14:29 schrieb John Was: > and this is the log by running xelatex -nopdf test Why do you run with the -no-pdf option? Your up-to-date XeTeX will use xdvipdfmx by default – which will waste one or two tenths of a second ... -- Greetings Pete We have to expect it, otherwise we would be surprised.