CompuServe Messages

Philip, GD's PPage 4.0 upgrade mentions all the things that were added as being added because the users asked for it. I personally feel there is one thing I KNOW most users want in ProPage and ProDraw that GD apparantly will NEVER give the users; and that is EXPORT in all the formats that PPage and PDraw import. I know GD seems to think that this is protecting their market but in fact it is not. Remember, probablythe second most extraordinary thing about Amigas behind multi-tasking in 512K is common file formats for data portability among differtne applications. Third party packages have extended that to conversion of Amiga file formats to other platforms. In this area GD is backward. It prevents you from bringing home your Aldus stuff from work, finishing it up in ProPage and then bringing it back to work for final review/revision in electronic format. Or worse yet, from using the Amiga in a similar vein on a network. Note that your competitors in the Lower 48 don't hog-tie their users like that. If Art Expression is a reasonable functional equivalent of ProDraw, and SL does an aggressive "power-up" on a combined PageStream/AE for ProDraw/ProPage they could really hurt Gold Disk in the Amiga market – big time. And the main driver will be the inability to export from PPage/PDraw to bitmaps TIFF, PCX, DR2D, BMP, various EPS and PS… yo know – all the ones you import. wmc – via Autopilot!