thanks, wasn't aware of the right to left execution. but this hasn't been the problem here, used line breaks between the commands.
i'm not using "unoptimized" objects. at least i guess so. it's just a page object with no style attached. maybe the problem sits in the amount of resizing. i'm blowing it from sizes like 70 to 10k and back to 100 right in the next line.
this also explains another weird problem i encountered. guess i have to find some other way to do what i want
