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Tom – Do you have a Hard Drive on your 500? –> "SOUNDS LIKE "PAGESTREAM" OR "PAGE MAKER" ARE THE LEADING CONTENDERS." You must mean PageStream and/or ProPage. Page Maker is not an Amiga program. In my opinion the ProPage software is still the leader and is excellent for DTP. It is a close race between the two, but my vote is in for ProPage. You will probably receive votes for both programs. Both programs are high end though and will cost you about $300 or so. With your A500 you maybe should look at "Pagesetter", it is Gold Disk's entry level DTP software with many of the features of ProPage. What you don't get with "PageSetter" is postscript output and color separations and a few of the features that they just recently added to the new ProPage v2.0 software. PageSetter is price around $120 and is a very good DTP program for entry level and dotmatrix projects. Plus you can always upgrade to the full blown ProPage when your needs increase. I asked about a Hard Drive, cause to do extensive DTP work you will want to start collecting fonts and fonts take up a lot of space and are not very convient without having them readidly available on your hard drive. That is – working with different fonts from Floppies is a Pain in the A**. You didn't mention how much RAM you have either, but it is my Opinion that unless you are prepared to add a HD and more RAM to your system you are better off with PageSetter. I mean why spend $300+ dollars for the High End DTP software, if you cann't afford the Hard Drive and Ram that those programs pretty much require. – Roy Pahnke – Casper, Wyomin' – Crazy Mountain Software –