What's so great about Ventura?

Easy copy and paste object from CorelDRAW X3, , after edit in CorelDRAW X3! embed object, or CDR 10, or CMX file. Saludos. Fernando.

With long documents there are usually several sections/chapters, and only Ventura can keep these chapters in a single publication. The chapters control which side of the page they start on and numbering for pages and chapters. Chapters can be reordered by dragging them into place, and chapters can be copied from publication to publication. To go to a specific chapter double click on it's name in the Navigator Window.

Page numbering is usually automatic, but you control any changes in numbering. You can set a specific page number or have it increment from the previous page. You can completely override a page with different properties than those in the page tag (master page), or can easily reapply the true tag attributes with a double click.

Each and every paragraph can have an override, and the Paragraph Properties dialog box gives you an indication of which attributes were changed from the original tag settings. This also applies to frames and other elements that have tags.

Ventura can EXPORT embedded graphics into any format. As far as I know, no other program can do this. This means that if you don't have the original of the photo or graphic and need to modify it outside Ventura you can easily do it.

I should know this program well. I've been using it for 20 years and teaching/consulting on it for just under that.

Amazing response, Carol. Thanks a bunch.

Carol Lovelady wrote the following post at 05-18-2007 11:26: Ventura users can create caption frames which are attached...

 

To say nothing of the fact that the text of  a caption can be automatically inserted into the text elsewhere (for example "Figure 2 Widgits after assembly."  can be quoted (and updated automatically in the 15th revision when Figure 2 becomes "Figure 4 "Widgits on board after  assembly")

 I have used that quoting a caption facility within the main text in items ranging from a 300 page (published) book to a 2 page business proposal, and many items in between (8 to 80 page brochures, proposals, reports etc.)

 

And Chapter conditions. Gee it's been at least two days since I used those (great for items function as variously, Reports to Shareholders, Confidential information for  Suppliers and Confidential Information for Engineering/Manufacturing etc., all with common elements and with some elements that are not to be seen under any conditions by some of those parties.

 The only time for any kind of mostly text document, and more than a few 1 page illustrations that I use any other program is when the need for Unicode cannot be avoided (in particular Korean--which theoretically could be reduced to a Korean character set as it is actually an alphabet with only 23 characters in current use; just have not figured out how to do it, and how to get Korean text out of Word into Ventura with a modified font. Sure wish Ventura would speak unicode and keep me from  tearing my hair out trying to use Word and its nightmare constructs, mysteriously chaning changing headers, etc.

O - did I hear anyone mention automated page headers and footers reflecting what any given page (or ones ahead of it) may have as a heading? And different items in left and right pages. And multiple indexes and multiple TOCs and... 

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Hola, alguna vez me sucedió, que se necesitaba enviar algunas paginas a color de VENTURA a CorelDRAW, sencillamente genial, pues al poder abrir archivos PDF desde CorelDRAW, la tarea es sencillisima, conservándose el kerning, con la salvedad que es para importar y no tocar en CorelDRAW —al menos el texto—, pues como se sabe CorelDRAW no tiene esa caracteristica que confiere al texto legibilidad y buen aspecto, las imagenes, vectores y textos llegan muy bien.

Debido a que Ventura hoy en día no es popular —es decir exclusivo, ja ja— cuando se necesita enviar al exterior —wao!— se utiliza el formato PDF, y si necesitan mas facilidades se envia en un CDR que ha sido creado a partir del PDF, pero, desde VENTURA directamente al igual que CorelDRAW la imposición es bastante sencilla, en especial cuando se trata de preparar placas de gran tamaño.

Saludos a todos, Fernando.

Hello, at some time it happened me that was needed to send some you paginate to color of HAPPINESS to CorelDRAW, simply brilliant, because to the power open files PDF from CorelDRAW, the task is simple, being conserved the kerning, with the exception that is to care and not to play in CorelDRAW —text contents—, because as CorelDRAW it is known he/she doesn't have that characteristic that confers to the text legibility and good aspect, the images, vectors and texts arrive very well.

Because Happiness nowadays is not popular .es to say exclusive, ja ja. when one needs to send to external .wao!. the format PDF is used, and if they need but facilities are sent in a CDR that has been created starting from PDF, but, from HAPPINESS directly the same as CorelDRAW the imposition is quite simple, especially when it is about preparing badges of great size.

Greetings to all, Fernando.

Another nice feature is the ability to have variable replacements for text. For example, I work on several manuals that have to be updated each year and the last/current/next years have to be updated each time. I do this automatically by changing the definition for each of these variable once within the publication and all references are automatically updated. It saves me a lot of time.

I use replacement variables constantly. For example, in our user documents, the name of the product in title page and footers is a variable. So is the pub date. In sales proposals and license agreements, the client's name, address, pub date, dropdead date and a dozen other items are variables. Our software license often includes two or three agreements. I have all the standard agreements as separate chapters in one pub file. I enter the variables once, delete the chapters I don't need and save under a new name. Then, all I have to do is key in the specific products, services and pricing. As a result, I can do a standard license (more than a dozen pages) in under 15 minutes, with minimal proofing.

Gracias, por el aporte, Fernando.

CDR 11 files can be directly loaded into Ventura. This is my typical workflow.

You can use most OT fonts, you just won't get all the extra features of them. Most all of the fonts I use regularly are OT.
 

Es sabido que en el maquetado de publicaciones, si bien es cierto que Corel VENTURA se utiliza para el maquetado del texto, es popular el uso de CorelDRAW para el diseño de las tapas, y si más aún se necesita tener un documento electrónico del mismo, esta tarea CorelVENTURA va a ayudarnos eficientemente, en el sentido de que al poder insertar contenido desde CorelDRAW dentro de la publicación VP, al crear el PDF, ya no se hace necesaria una posterior edición para insertar las tapas vía Acrobat Profesional, sino directamente se genera el PDF desde CorelVENTURA.

En el mismo tema de libros electrónicos, la facilidad de creación de referencias para la posteior creación de Indices activando links, en Ventura la tarea es sencilla, permitiendo crear multiple indices y tablas de contenido, haciendo uso incluso de referencias cruzadas, los mismos que se manipulan en la util ventana acoplable "Navigator", en esta ultima se accede también a los scripts, los mismos que son bastante útiles que simplifican muchas tareas comunes (eliminar espacios dobles, redimensionar objetos vectoriales, etc.) claro está que pueden ser modificados asi como crearlos a medida via CorelScript.

Otra utilidad interesante es que a los párrafos se pueden activar el "drop caption" para caracteres y palabras ——... y otra singularidad también se encuentra en los titulos en las tablas, los mismos que al poder rotar el texto, resultan bastante legibles —se espera que para la próxima versión el control de las tablas sea mucho más versátil e interactivo  y añadirle el atributo de transparencias—,

Asi mismo, como bien se anotado anteriormente, los epigrafes de los marcos son realmente muy útiles —claro que es necesario mejorar en la proxima versión la manera como se ancla a los textos, en terminos de interactividad más efectiva vía la barra de propiedades—, pues incluso allí funcionan perfectamente los pies de pagina, que junto a las famosas reglas de imposición que es caracteristica de Ventura hacen la vida fácil, es una realidad para los usuarios de Ventura que el modificar el estilo o el tipo de letra, las modificaciones son bastante sencillas —alguna vez he enviado 5 modelos de maquetado con su respectiva contabilización de paginas para su aprobación —, tengo entendido que en otros programas "profesionales" aún es una utopia, si es que no hace uso indiscrimado del tiempo que es mejor dedicar para apreciar el eterno cenit . Hasta otro día y saludos a todos.

Fernando.

Comment: For that not yet they enjoy the language made art , this text can translate using it http://www.google.es/translate_t  thanks.

Ventura is the only application I know of under $1,000 U.S. to handle documents in excess of 1,000 pages without a plug-in.

Ventura does not have that God Awful, MAC,  Adobe or Quark interface.

Gracias Fernando; muy amplia respuesta la tuya.

Greetings,

So how come Corel does not bundle this in the Suite?? Seems like a no brainer.

I would guess that the support problems that would arise from wide spread use of Ventura with X3 would cost them a bundle.