CompuServe Messages

Jamie, Take a look at your ProPage manual(s); a good summary is to peek at the 1.3 upgrde manual pp 36 and 37. I believe you can use downloadable fonts and even swap EPS graphic files among platforms. If you output PostScript to a file, the file can be taken to a service (or sent via modem) for output on any postscript compatible device you care to spring for. You mainly would be interested in PageStream for its other features. ProPage is just a page layout program. It has only rudimentary features of a document assembly/mangement publishing program as well. PageStream has a few more, but as yet I've not seen anything on the Amiga that is really a professional DTP program in the sense that it can easily handle all the DTP tasks in a single environment (auto index, auto number, page numbering auto headers, single enviroment fast text entry, graphics editting, page layout, auto table of contents, auto date, revision bar placement, one-touch single-sided/double sided format toggling…). This is not picking. It is a fact of the Amiga's young age and the inability of any amiga developer to devote 50-100 person-year efforts and expect to get their money back. Anyway, I'f you decide to get PageStream, it probably won't do anytthing more for you in the PosScript area than ProPage. However it does do enough that PP doesn't that it is sort of a nice complement to ProPage. wmc