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I've got some replies to your questions about what the MS-Apple deal will solve. Performance? You bet. No matter how much we may all love Adobe's PS, there's no denying that it's incredibly, and sometimes miraculously, SLOW. Much of the reason for that is probably its "less than admirable" (I'm being nice) memory management system. Much more of the reason is that they never had much incentive to speed it up, because they HAD NO COMPETITORS! Screen display quality? ATM is not a good general solution for Mac owners, because it only images Adobe fonts!! (You're going to say that everyone will have Type 1 fonts after Adobe releases the info, but that's another point for me – they never would have released that information without the MS-Apple agreement). As for Display PS working well on other platforms, D-PS was to my understanding the main reason drawing programs work so insufferably slow on the 33-MHz 68030 NeXT machine. Enriched features? Certainly. The MS_Apple solution will be a superset of Adobe PS features. They will probably also improve the existing features, such as the moronic (still being nice) 1500 turnpoint limit that every PS user knows of, or PS screens that are inaccurate, etc. I don't think anti-trust really is a threat; not after 8 years of Reagon court-appointees. Or with the Big 3 car companies teaming up with Asian competitors (presumably to take market share away from others). Finally, I'm betting that if it's done right (and I think it can), most of the changes will be transparent to the user, and he won't have to care either way. Particularily after Royal fonts become the new standard (presumably after all the PS fonts have been converted to it). Adobe's really got no complaints. None of this would have come about without their eexec nonsense, and font encryptions, and hidden PS utilities that only Adobe products could use, and 1500 turnpoints (we've put up with that one for four years now!), and high prices, and, and, and . . . — Pete