Extra-strength Ventura
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Xerox has addressed the needs of users who desire general-purpose publishing with the Ventura Publisher 2.0, and those who have industrial strength requirements with the Ventura Publisher Professional Extension. The basic program for IBM PC and PS plus compatibles now allows users to process gray-scale images and control halftone screen patterns. Another option allows for as many as six colors to be made up on a style sheet and then printed. The Professional Extension program has a built-in feature for creating tables and generating equations for easy insertion anywhere in text, as well as an improved hyphenation dictionary. Up to 32 megabytes of text files can be created because of Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) support. There are some limitations to the Ventura program, but they do not detract from its main DTP capabilities.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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Ventura's new color extensions
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Ventura Publisher 4.0 Windows Edition, priced at $795, is part of a one-stop solution for scanning high-quality color images and producing full-page color separations directly from within a page layout program. With this package, plus a quartet of products developed as extensions to Ventura and sold separately, users can establish a state-of-the-art color prepress workstation on IBM microcomputers or compatible machines. Key features include a search-and-replace option, automatic text wrap around, spell checker, and undo/redo command. Users can also copy and paste bitmapped images from other applications with the clipboard, inserting a designated group of pages. However, the product upgrade is available only for the Windows edition.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Versatile Ventura
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Xerox's $895 Ventura Publisher, release 1.1, offers improved design and typesetting capabilities. Some enhancements include: a new Typographic Controls dialog box; a speedier hyphenation algorithm; a 100-word expandable hyphenation dictionary with customizing features; and better access to fonts for printing. First-time users will find the program difficult to learn because there is no on-line help. Ventura Publisher does not provide a printout of the information in style sheets or enable deletion of more than one page at a time. Ventura Publisher requires an IBM PC or compatible with hard disk, using DOS 2.0 or later.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1987
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