CompuServe Thread

We did whip up a competitive program, although we didn't sell it for half the price. And it came with a standalone converter that converted ProDraw to IFF DR2D. We also added ProDraw import to PageStream. All Gold Disk did by keeping their file format private is cause us more work (maybe a worthwhile goal for them. ;-), and lower sales of ProDraw. People don't want to use a program that locks them into only programs from that company, unless that company is about the size of Corel. It's not like we wouldn't add support for the format if they wouldn't give it to us. It just meant we had to spend a few weeks of time figuring it out. The only tough part is that all their programs that wrote out ProDraw files wrote them out slightly differently. We never released the PageStream2 file format because it wasn't a very standard format. Like PageMaker and XPress's file formats, it was tied directly to the internal structure of PageStream2 and would have been tough for anybody else to use. PageStream3, like ProPage and ProDraw, uses an IFF format which makes it a lot easier for others to support. The only companies which refuse to share file formats that I'm aware of are Gold Disk, Softwood and Corel. Cheers, Michael @ Soft-Logik Publishing