Re: future of Ventura?

Oh Corel ... Just received an email announcing the relaunching of an 
'Australian' Corel website. I opened it and found no listing of Ventura 
among the products. I then did the obligatory search for 'Ventura' and came 
up empty. Being more specific I searched for 'Corel Ventura 10' and was told 
that it was 'The only tool you need for transforming long, complex documents 
into highly formatted and visually rich publications'. Irony, irony.

"Adam Bobro" <mushko77@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4798a608$1_2@cnews...
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> I think that Ventura is just great publishing program, but it is not a 
> page layout program like InDesign or Quark. Ventura matches better to 
> Framemaker. What does not do ventura is unicode and opentype fonts.
> Support is far away :) not the best, but people here will always help you 
> with anything
> noone knows if corel will create a new version
> and believe me it matters mutch what you want to publish
> if you make only some flyers draw will do thing too :)
> if you make 100-200 pages book it can be done with indesign, quark, 
> ventura, framemaker
> but if you publish 1000 or more pages indesign and quark are too slow
> so for such books are better Ventura, Framemaker
> if you do a math or tables Ventura :) ie you dont need to buy another 
> software to create equations, Ventura 10 has table tags so if there are 
> many tables you can format them easy
> i have quark, indesign and ventura ... mostly i use ventura, just if i 
> need to use opentype font i reach for quark or indesign
> and if you dislike adobe`s workspace ... buy Ventura :)
>
> buy Ventura, more we are, it is better ... maybe corel will see that they 
> should make new version :)
>
> Adam
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> jonesin' wrote:
>> I am connsidering the purchase of a page layout program.  Since I am a

>> forever user of Draw, I would naturally consider Ventura but I am not 
>> going to invest in an orphan, either money or time.  Does anyone know
how 
>> long since they upgraded this program and if/when they plan a future 
>> upgrade? How does it stack up to In Design?  I am a HUGE DRAW fan and 
>> would hope to be the same with Ventura, but I am done with supporting 
>> software companies just because they exist.  I will purchase within one

>> week, but will not purchase a program unless I am comfortable with its

>> future.
>> thanks,
>> Larry
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