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Amazon.com Review
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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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Powerhouse for Desktop Publishing,
By Dan Lauber "Dan" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corel Ventura 10 Upgrade 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 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Behind the times,
By Jack "(Of all trades)" (New England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corel Ventura 10 Upgrade Intelligent Publishing for Business (CD-ROM)
This is fine for old hands who refuse to try anything else.If you are new to Desktop design, look elsewhere - this program was last updated in 2002, and there are no upgrade routes, no support from Corel, and no third party how-to books. Search Amazon.com to see how many books about Corel Ventura 10 are out there. The information promoting this program is nearly a decade out of date - it does not support the newer versions of the programs listed, and those programs it once outperformed have advanced far beyond Ventura's limited scope of basic page layout, and several of the features advertised - including .pdf export - are poorly implemented. Worse, most printers are not familiar with the nuances of this program. Selling it like a 'new' program is akin to selling Windows 95 as a cutting edge operating system. Great for its time, but now hopelessly outclassed.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A new Start,
By Crispness (U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corel Ventura 10 Upgrade Intelligent Publishing for Business (CD-ROM)
We waited a long time for Corel to produce VPXML and when the did they called it Corel Ventura 10. A bit unadventurous ? In more ways than one.First major change is that Ventura will now run only on Win2K or XP (and presumably the successors). Corel reason that instability was on of VP's bubears and have addressed this by running only on stable platforms. It seems to wrk. it has not crashed on me in 2 months. The second big change is the ability to import XML. Lets make that clear. This is not an XML editor. It will import, format and paginate xml files. But they cannot be edited in situ. They are linked back to the original xml file which can be edited and VP will display any changes to the source xml. The XML facilities have been bolted on to VP. A new utility called the Mapping Editor allows users to map xml structures to VP tags including paragraphs, inline formats, page styles, tables, frames, rows and cells. Ther map is stored as an xml file with a .vmf (Ventura Map Format ?) extension. When an xml file is imported, a vmf file must be allocated to the import so that VP knows how to format the xml. A VMF can have an XSLT transformation attached to it so that the original xml can be restructured BEFORE VP sees it, again without affecting the source XML. If this sounds complicated, well XML can be complicated. And to use the XML facilites to their best you need to understand XML itself. The third major change is the addition of table tags. Know a standard table style can be allocated a name and reused accross a publication. This is a very good start and for me the use of xml is key. It works. But it needs a few more facilities to be top notch. Score 4/5
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