Corel Ventura 10

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Product Features

• Improved stability and compatibility ensure a smooth workflow
• Software for creating highly formatted and visually rich publications
• Enhanced customization, color management, and prepress options
• Update multiple tables quickly with new table tags; new bitmap effects
• XML import support; work faster with more PDF and printing options

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FIS8EW
• Item model number: VEN10ENGPCDVD
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,993 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

When it comes to business publishing, Corel Ventura 10 is as powerful as it gets. It's the only tool you need for transforming long, complex documents--including XML files--into highly formatted and visually rich publications.

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 XML import support. And work faster with improved PDF and printing options.

Corel Ventura 10 has been dramatically improved to help you work more efficiently. Improved stability and enhanced compatibility keep your team productive and your workflow smooth, while new and enhanced features give you more publishing power.

Features:

• New XML import: import XML files and edit them as external documents, or embed them into your Corel Ventura 10 documents, to easily publish XML content and create professional business documents
• New publish to PDF: distribute documents with complete visual integrity via print, the Web, or mobile devices, with small file sizes and faster rendering times, and embed any type of file--along with author, keyword information, and ICC profiles--into a PDF document
• New table tags: save valuable time by formatting and updating multiple tables at once, or import tables from other applications, including WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel, while retaining important formatting attributes
• Enhanced stability: optimized for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, Corel Ventura 10 offers improved reliability and stability
• Enhanced prepress options: include crop marks, calibration bars, file information, densitometer scales, and registration marks
• New preflight engine: receive preflight warnings that advise you of potential errors
• Printing features: output all bitmap images as RGB, CMYK, or grayscale
• Enhanced customization: create, import, and export workspaces, and customize toolbars, shortcut keys, and common right-mouse-button menus
• Enhanced color management: find all your essential color-management options in one dialog box
• New bitmap effects: choose from more than 50 new bitmap effects to touch-up graphics within Corel Ventura 10
• Enhanced external link updating: easily search through one or more chapters at a time to automatically find and update missing links in all of the files that are located
• Enhanced prepare for service bureau wizard: automatically gather all files associated with a document, such as fonts and linked images, to provide a service bureau with everything necessary to open and output the document
• Enhanced compatibility: share files easily with support for WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Micrografx Designer, iGrafx Designer, Corel Designer, CorelPhoto-Paint, and more

Product Description

When it comes to business publishing, Corel Ventura® 10 is as powerful as it gets. It’s the only tool you need for transforming long, complex documents—including XML files—into highly formatted and visually rich publications. 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. And work with documents from virtually any source, including WordPerfect®, Microsoft® Word, Adobe® Illustrator® and CorelDRAW®. For increased productivity and high-quality results, Corel Ventura 10 is your professional publishing solution.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does the job - at a high price, June 29, 2009

By	L.C. - See all my reviews

Bottom Line: There are newer programs available for the same price which are easier to use, offer better features, more support, and are more stable.

The screen refresh is buggy for complex graphic and table-intensive documents over 75 pages long. It has a tendency to add or delete space bands and returns into imported text randomly. Many features listed in Amazon's descriptions above are unreliable or poorly executed.

Text handling is adequate, but limited in comparison to page layout programs of the late 1990's; for instance, no horizontal or vertical scaling of letters is permitted, small caps and some other common typographic effects are missing- bold, italic and underline are thankfully available. Its management of fonts, colors and images is fairly awkward when compared to older versions of Quark and InDesign. There is no obvious way to crop an image within the program for instance - it needs to be edited in an image-editing program. Fades, fancy corners, and multiple line styles are also absent.

It can handle large documents with a minimum of illustrations, where cross-referencing is required, and it does not require a powerful new computer to run; having run it on an 800mhz and a 2.0 ghz machine, I can say there is no difference in performance, so there is no need to invest in new hardware once you have paid the princely sum for this program.

For old users, stick with this. For new users, be aware that Corel has no plans to update this 2002 vintage software. To my knowledge, there is no upgrade path or any way to export your work intact from Corel Ventura into modern page layout programs.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ventura 10 Rocks, January 7, 2008

By	Dan Lauber "Dan" (USA) - See all my reviews

Ventura 10 continues to be the desktop publishing application of choice for desktop publishing professionals who have a choice. We find it far easier to use than the competition -- and that its features for long document publications are far more advanced than even the newest versions of the competition. One of Ventura 10's strongest points is its savvy use of style tags for characters, paragraphs, pages, and tables -- giving us incredible control over formatting and great ease in changing formatting. Frankly, Ventura 10 is one of the few applications in which I really enjoy working -- as evidenced by all the books of ours that Amazon.com sells. Ventura is one of the great productivity-enhancing applications of all time!

I am very puzzled by the earlier writer who actually thinks you can do everything Ventura does in Word, and better. If this person actually used Ventura 10 a few times to produce a book, catalog, or report, this person would understand why desktop publishing professionals cringe when they hear of people trying to produce long, structured documents in any word processor, especially the dreadful Microsoft Word. I must admit to being stunned by that person's comments.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unusable, unstable, unbelievably overpriced, December 28, 2007

By	Jack "(Of all trades)" (New England) - See all my reviews

To the Ventura Fanatics:

I have used Adobe Pagemaker, Quark XPress, and Adobe InDesign over the last twelve years in a high-paced professional publishing environment, laying out 30 to 120 pages per week. When I changed jobs and took on Corel Ventura, which was explained to be the "equal" of Quark, I shrugged and took it on.

Since the initial post, I have managed to complete a 300 page book, with hundreds of images and in color, which was a component of the many other responsibilities I had to deal with. The program was unstable, unfriendly and lost tables and text all the time. A smaller project I began on it from scratch I abandoned in favor of MS Word.

In my humble opinion, short documents (under 50 pages): MS Word remains a viable option.

For larger documents, get Adobe InDesign.

I present a more detailed list of the chronic failings of your vaunted Ventura:

1. Corel last updated the program in 2002 - there are no indications it will be updated again.
2. Corel's support and documentation of it are dismal at best.
3. Third party instruction books are non-existant. Courses for the program are non-existant as well.
4. Most of the controls are poorly documented, poorly executed or buried in the menus compared to modern programs.
5. Precise positioning and image handling is primitive at best; the program pitches a fit if you try to rotate an image in it, and demands you rotate the image in an image editing program.
6. The typographic controls are limited compared to modern programs; no horizontal or vertical scaling, and making minor tweaks is a major headache.

I could go on, but I won't. Corel Ventura is fine for old hands who are experts with it since version 1 came out, but beginners or casual users will have nothing but tears and headaches to show for it if they buy this sorry relic.