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Ron: It actually works pretty much like it seems it would have to. Your noprint is undoubtedly because post can't find the font you used. The default font is a NULL font – doesn't print anything. (See init.ps) If you are going to play with this you will NEED a couple of good books on Postscript – Adobe's red book is a must, and you will also need something in a more tutorial vein. I have had it running here, using a program called lptops – which just takes a plain-jane ascii file and makes it into a postscript file with the font, size, etc. that you specify. (its in the libs around here, with source). I tried running a Pagestream file thru it, and it choked right from the get-go. That was Friday (late), and I haven't had time to run down what was going on. Post is a bit faster that Pixelscript (and has a 68020 version that should be much faster), but doesn't have as slick a user interface. (Albeit, its not as bad as it looks at first) Oh yeah, don't try to use Adobe fonts. Not only are they a major pain in the wallet, they are encrypted in a manner that I don't think will run on a clone interpreter. The CG fonts from Gold Disk work like a champ, tho. Just remember that they MUST be in a directory called PSFonts:, and should have NO extension (like psfont or some similar. IE Times-Roman must SAY Times-Roman – nothing else) Have fun! (Whadda ya want for nothing, a rubber biscuit??) :->