Alex, could you send me your ports of liblouis liblouisutdml and libxml2 as attachments offlist. The embosser code is nearly ready for testing. Once it is, I will be able to make a release for the Mac that can be run from the terminal. After testing it can be put into your app bundle. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities