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Jonathan, OK Gold Disk can jump in here. I don't know if the same folks are still there as when this all started happening. I forget when PPage first came out. I got it because it was the _only_ program to support Bezier curves on this machine. It also had a different name then, but I can't recall that either! Jees, the mind is a terrible thing. They say that memory of comptuter program names is the first thing to go. Can't remember what the other thing is . . . Any way, PPage's original incarnation progressed into PPage and the folks at Gold Disk were in contact with Adobe in order to develop their programs. Gold Disk was the _only_ Amiga developer to even have been aware of PostScript then. They got a very cold reception from Adobe, if not a downright brush-off. Adobe would not give Gold Disk the kind of tech support it was only too glad to give Apple, UNIX and yes, even MS DOS computer developers (then in their PostScript infancy). Adobe made it clear that it would not help developers for the Amiga because the machine, being a CBM development was not a serious platform, and not 'worthy' of an Adobe effort. It was as though they did not want their name associated with CBM or Amiga. I had several conversations with various tech support people at Adobe in my own efforts at some PostScript packages that we wanted to release for the Amiga. (A font downloader among other useful utilities.) The individual people at Adobe Tech support were interesting to talk to. Some were very candid. They were well aware of Amiga, some had Amigas. Most had to repeat the "no comment" official line re Adobe's policy of helping Amiga developers. Others openly admitted to me that Adobe's official but unwritten policy was to not support Amiga. To my knowledge they never did give Amiga developers the kind of help they did give other platforms. They eventually began publishing their standards and eventually PostScript became well enough known that programmers could code for [ MORE ]