Hi Zdenek, thanks for your comment.
> xref tables are close to the end of the PDF file). Just removing > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} solves the problem and it works fine on my Interestingly it didn't on my fully uptodate TeX Live ... even after removing the .aux file and starting from scratch ... very puzzling. Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13