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John: I know. We went through alot of confusing wrangling trying to get hold of the CG font format. First Gold Disk said that they had no problem but that we should check with CG. Then CG said that they had no problem but we should check with Gold Disk. Finally, it came down to CG telling us that we would have to pay a large fee for the CG format or co-op with Gold Disk and get it from them. Naturally, Gold Disk (being the closed loop that they are) decided against that. To be honest, I think it's kind of dumb for anybody to be involved with CG fonts in the first place. They're unnecessarily bulky, confusing and don't contain the Type 1 "hints". Why bother?, is what I say. (From Gold Disk's point of view, they obviously stood to make a lot of money by introducing CG fonts. But I think it's only harmed the DTP community in the long run rather than helped it.) What the Amiga really needs is direct Adobe support, like the Mac, and there's no way that's going to happen (trust me). So I guess the Amiga is destined to rely on conversion software if it expects to keep up to the Mac, or even IBM, as far as DTP goes. But without direct PostScript support in the OS, I dunno'… So, how's things in InterchangeLand? (Bought a copy way back when I was into animation; very good software!) Gary. – Mirror Image Prod. (416) 495-7469, via WHAP!