1.   Bert Santana, who works for a graphics design company in Hialeah, is new on the bandwagon.

2.   But some enterprising graphics companies have developed generic animations that can cost as little as a few hundred dollars.

3.   Corel got its start as a graphics application company, and that strength has finally shown up in the suite.

4.   For Anita Brown of Washington, a former secretary who now runs a small graphics design company, getting on line was wholly unintentional.

5.   Graphics companies argue that their animations are rooted in fact and that they help juries understand complex ideas.

6.   Graphics software companies are in an uproar over the request, which involves the GIF file format that Compuserve developed.

7.   Her father, Joe Rodriguez, now owns a Miami graphics company and teaches a class at Miami-Dade Community College.

8.   Lowell Murrell runs a computer graphics company called American Illustrator in Cocoa Beach, and he is getting in on the Glenn boom, too.

9.   Other companies, from PC makers such as Packard Bell NEC Corp. to graphics company Visio, also agree.

10.   Printera Corp. said it bought a controlling interest in rival pre-press graphics company Laird Group Inc. and is aiming for complete ownership.