With the sample below, the resulting PDF will crash MuPDF, Adobe Reader will show an empty page (though in a longer document it shows a message saying the file is broken and just few pages are rendered while the rest is blank), Evince will open the file and show the text correctly but will give the following errors in the terminal: Error: ExtGState 'GSoverprint' is unknown Error: ExtGState 'GSknockout' is unknown .... Rebeated several time. Sample: \setupcolors[overprint=yes] \starttext Hello \TeX. \stoptext ConTeXt version 2009.08.13 and 2009.08.16 Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer