CompuServe Messages

I haven't had to run into the text limitation yet since most of my stuff is still on a white background. I guess that's why they call them "white papers". I tried out the color sep to see what got produced and thought I was getting burned for a moment. I had included a bitmap which didn't print out! Turns out they hid a switch to control printing of bitmaps in the print requester. Oh well, maybe they'll have a workable version out as fast as they put out a revision for Comicsetter. I have given a Mac friend an EPSF file from Pro Draw to see how it plays with Xpress. Will let you know what happens. I wonder if V1.2 of PPage will be able to trade EPSF both ways. Would be nice since we have Xpress and a Ventura setup lying around. My friend was sort of wowed when he saw me able to produce a true color sep and not just mechanical overlays. Incidentally if you've ever tried to ZAP a document or drawing file, they've hidden a CRC in there somewhere. I had one document with a fair number of bitmaps referencing a disk on another system. PPage would bitch about not finding the files and then would only prompt for a new path for the first bitmap encountered. I tried to ZAP the new device name into the document file, but PPage complained about a corrupt document when it tried to load it. Wish they would open up their formats!