Most frustrating for me was our inability to load
Ventura Publisher 4.0 on our networked PCs.
The various elements of a page of a Whelen document are merged using
Ventura Publisher. Gem, a Windows-like operating environment for Ventura, provides typographical control for the electronic paste-up process.
Once I finished editing a set of electronic files from WordPerfect, they were taken by someone in the funding organization, who laid out the pages using
Ventura Publisher. This person didn't know the publishing convention of one space, and so left my two spaces after each sentence in the text.
Also a pioneer in the field and now offered in a Windows edition,
Ventura Publisher 4.0 from Ventura Software, Inc., integrates scanning, page layout and final film steps into one package.
Ventura Publisher ranks lowest among our respondents, at 78 percent, which may reflect its reputation in the user community as a more difficult program to learn (Ventura is an "integrated" program, that provides the user with both word processing and page makeup capabilities).
In the early days of desktop publishing,
Ventura Publisher on the PC was one of the most popular programs.
Ventura Software recently tested a large-scale manufacturer's rebate offer for
Ventura Publisher (list price $895) and FormBase ($495).
Poorbaugh weighed the options and decided on Xerox Corp.'s
Ventura Publisher software.