This message was posted by Barbara Bunker on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/3/500.html#000003 I have the Viking Designer Diamond and the 4D Embroidery software. The Diamond can indeed read the VIP format as well as EXP and DST and many other formats. As we well know, EXP and DST don't save the colors. For a simple design (one or two colors) it doesn't matter but adding a text file with color changes is very helpful. A question to ask the Diamond user is whether she has updated her machine. The very first machines were limited in the formats they could read, but that was remedied fairly quickly with a series of updates downloadable from Viking. Barb Bunker BMB Custom Embroidery Broomfield, CO =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================