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Peter, From your question, you are not familiar with the Amiga system. What magazine will you be publishing in? Presently, the most capable DTP program for the Amiga is Professional Page by Gold Disk Software. They will have Professional Draw released in October which will be similar to Adobe Illustrator. Soft Logik has been promising their program Publishing Partmner Professional for months. Its specs sound somewhat more extensive than Professional Page, but since Publishing Partner Pro has not been released, it is still just vaporware. I use an Apple Laserwriter II NT for output – but for proofing only. Final output goes to a Linotronic 300 at 2500 dpi resolution. I am using the standard Amiga monitor in interlace mode which is ok, the ideal display device would be a Flicker Fixer board and a Multisync monitor or CBM's new 1000×800 monochrome monitor. I import drawings using DigiView and clean up the images with the graphic tools in Professional Page and with Deluxe Paint II. There are other better "paint" programs now but I haven't tried them for this purpose. Scanners are coming for the machine. There are some recent messages from ASDG about their new scanning programs on the AmigaVendor forum and on the AmigaTech forum. Good luck with your article. Let me know if there are other questions that I or others can answer. Rich