CompuServe Messages

Oddly enough, I found an old version of the original Xpress in our dusty files just today. I was playing around with it and one of the first things I found was the Font listing (and font replacing) feature. I thought it was great! I wonder why the feature was never adopted by other DTP applications. The other features of the original version were kind of primative (that's why we don't use it anymore)… but I'm sure Quark has updated it's features now (in the 2.O versions), and I'll look into upgrading and using IT rather than PageMaker. I would agree, the Font search feature should be included in ALL applications… it would definately be a help to us. If you haven't already, DL the Varityper DAs (PSFontFinder in particular)… I did by suggestions of other users. I've used them and they DO work. Course, you have to print a PageMaker file to a postscript disk file in order to scan it. It's a little more trouble than I really wanted to go through (and a little more disk space than I wanted to consume)… but the benefits and time saved are worth it. And then you just throw the Postscript file away after you've scanned it. You get some erroneous names when you scan PageMaker files this way… but you just ignore them. And there's a feature to copy the names to the clipboard, so it's easy to create a nice, readable, comprehensive listing for your friendly L-300 house. Thanks, Carl