CompuServe Messages

Michael, A friend has told me that the latest version of PgS on the Atari has a mode which allows very fast screen updates ( a text mode?) This mode does not show accurate screen renditions of fonts. Is this mode available in the Amiga version. Also, is it possible for Pagestream to handle a TIFF, IFF or EPSF without importing the file into memory? That is, can the program just link to these files on the disk and either display them as a box with an X in it or display a low resolution version of the file? If memory serves, ProPage has some such feature, and such file handling is standard on the Mac (with the exception of IFF file capability). The fact that PgS has to handle the entire file is a severe drawback, and makes working with large graphic files nearly impossible, even with large amounts of memory. Handling and output of halftones on the Mac via Quark, for instance is almost effortless. I can have a page on screen which represents over 30 megs of graphic files and output them very easily to my imagesetter. Quark simply keeps track of the files on the disk, lets me manipulate the screen representation of the file (size, shape, etc) and then includes the file data in the PostScript bit stream to the output device. Am I missing something, or can Pgs do the same? If it can't, is it possible to get it to handle files in this manner sometime soon? It would seem to me that handling the entire file is the worst of all possible situations. The program has to work harder than just keeping track of the disk file, and the burden on the hardware is enormous. Thanks, Rich