- Platform: Windows 2000 / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
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This version of Corel's heavyweight desktop publishing program boosts its usefulness as a Web tool and further improves large-document handling. Corel describes Ventura 10 as "intelligent publishing for business," and for once the catch phrase is close to the truth. Ventura has been with Corel for five years, and during this time the company has molded the program into one of the key members of its professional graphics lineup.
Ventura has always been an excellent vehicle for designing large documents. If you have a book or lengthy report to produce, there's little that can compare with the document management provided by this program. More recently, though, Corel has added several ease-of-use features and improved graphics support by borrowing elements from CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint. It has become an excellent general-purpose DTP program, aimed at business users.
Ventura 10 adds three key new features: XML import, table tags, and the ability to publish directly to PDF files. XML is rapidly becoming a de facto standard for text documents and this enhancement makes Ventura even more useful for creating pages intended for the Web.
Table tags work similarly to Ventura's paragraph tags, the program's way of handling styles. The new feature enables you to save the style of an entire table and apply it directly to other tables in the same or other documents. This can save a lot of time and help maintain a unified corporate style.
Ventura 10's ability to directly create Acrobat PDF files improves its ability to produce Internet documents quickly and easily. Among other new features and enhancements are 100 new effects you can apply directly to bitmap images, without using separate photo-enhancement software. There's a brand-new preflight engine, too, to reveal any problems with a document before it reaches printed proofs. A new wizard to help prepare for printing at a professional print shop works well with the preflight engine to prevent unexpected surprises.
The program is designed for Windows 2000 and XP only and comes with Database Publisher, the screen-capture utility Corel Capture, and a bar code tool. Over 1,500 TrueType and Type 1 fonts are bundled into the package. --Simon Williams, Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com Product Description
Corel Ventura 10 turns lengthy or complex files, including XML files, into highly formatted and visually rich documents. Enhanced stability and compatibility keep your workflow smooth, while powerful formatting tools help ensure polished documents.
Update multiple tables quickly with new table tags. Enjoy more flexibility with support for XML import, and improved PDF and printing options. Work with documents from virtually any source, including WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, and CorelDRAW. Distribute documents with complete visual integrity via print, the Web, or mobile devices with small file sizes and fast rendering times. Save valuable time by formatting and updating multiple tables at once. Enhanced color management helps you find all your essential color management options in one dialog box. In addition, the new preflight engine sends you preflight warnings that advise you of potential errors.
Corel Ventura 10 is an ideal application for combining and transforming your organization's information and data into highly manageable, structured documents.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stable Desktop Publishing Powerhouse,
By Dan Lauber "Dan" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corel Ventura 10 Intelligent Publishing for Business (CD-ROM)
Ventura has always offered more features per dollar than its rival desktop publishing programs (some experts who use them all estimate it would cost $10,000 in add-ins for Quark Express to have all the features included with Ventura). I've tried some of the others, but none really can match the ease of use and power of Ventura 8, and now Ventura 10. Ventura is simply the best for publishing books, newsletters, magazines, brochures, flyers, and catalogs.New to Version 10 is a great "Publish to PDF" feature that turns your Ventura documents into letter perfect PDF files with a few clicks of the mouse. Ventura's modeless cursor really speeds up production as does its built-in Database Publisher which enabled us to produce over 300 fully formated pages of our book "International Job Finder" in an afternoon -- including two extensive indexes! The Navigator makes it easy to change the order of chapters in a document and easily track down index entries, markers, and cross references. I won't pretend Ventura 10 is perfect -- it was designed to run only in Windows XP and 2000. But it is very stable; bugs are no worse than what its competition offer. Since I started using version 8 several years ago, I have not had to call Tech Support even once. There's an incredible newgroup of Ventura users (at cnews.corel.ca, under corel.graphic_apps) around the world who can quickly -- and accurately -- answer any question you proffer.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Really is obsolete,
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This review is from: Corel Ventura 10 Intelligent Publishing for Business (CD-ROM)
Corel Ventura may have been a good program once upon a time, but it is unsuitable for long, complex documents that involve color and illustrations. Other programs offer more value, more features, more support, and will work on modern operating systems.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not suitable for a 21st century business,
By Jack "(Of all trades)" (New England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corel Ventura 10 Intelligent Publishing for Business (CD-ROM)
Once a worthy page layout program, it was abandoned by its makers in 2002 and support for it is negligible at best. I have yet to find a third-party support book for Version 10. I would emphasize right HERE that this program is NOT for novices nor BUSINESSES!True, all of the 'features' may have cost $10,000 extra for Quark Express - in 1998 - but today these features (and many, many others) are standard in both Quark Express and InDesign, which are both widely used and supported. It is more stable than Quark 4.0, I will give it that - but Quark last put that out in 1999. Even a modern version of MS Word can create a business report that is equal to Ventura's capabilities. Like Corel's other offerings, many commonly used features are buried within menus. The more useful panels, which control the frames and tables, are buried in the menus, and cover a good section of the screen - and the portions of the work you are adjusting. If you need to adjust another part of the page - close the panel, and open it up again. All very tedious and time-consuming compared to other programs. Another annoyance is the "Tags" - in every other program, style sheets. If you need to bold one word, using the standard "click the B icon" the entire tag for paragraphs gets change to reflect that one minor change. So you have to create a new paragraph or character style sheet EVERY time you want to make a minor variation to text - even to see if it "works". The other text handling features are rudimentary at best. It really deserves one star - but since I have worked with MS Publisher (which is far worse) I have to give it two.
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