Ventura 10 alternatives for full weekly newspaper layouts

 

Ok we can assume since corel has not put any effort into upgrading Ventura, can you tell me this. Are Cx3 and Cx4 capable of doing full layouts of a weekly newspaper of 32-60 pages? We are currently running into problems with the press sending PDFs of our pages in Ventutra 10. We would prefer not to have to switch to Adobe CS3 (as all the other newspapers who deal with our press do), but are finding more and more problems as time goes on and the press upgrades its software that Ventura 10 will no longer cut it. We are currently running ad layouts and some stand alone pages in CX3, but the Publisher still uses Ventura to pull each page of issue together to send to the press.

If you could find some discussion links from newspapers that use CX3 or CX4 for FULL PRE PRESS LAYOUT, it would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks in advance

 

Chris Stecher

Art Monkey

The Valley Reporter

www.valleyreporter.com

HI Chris, generally I would say "YES" (I'm creating two magazines with 16 and 32 Pages myself in Draw), but if you can mail me an PDF file of a back issue, I can take a look and give you a better opinion. :-) Jens

Chris --

We do press-ready PDFs from Ventura 10 all the time, as do many other people, so I suspect the issues can be worked out.

What kind of problems is the press having with your PDFs?

Is it possible that you are using the built-in pdf creator? This has caused problems in some cases.

Using another pdf writer (Jaws for instance) might be an alternative and produce better pdfs.

Just a thought.

Regards,

Stilman Daivs 

Welcome Ventura X5 in 2008!!!... ?????.... muy a pesar que hasta donde conozco, los nuevos directivos de Corel desconocen Ventura!!! . Tarea?.... Regards at all. Fernando.

 Stilman,

 

Thanks for the input. we are using the acrobat 7 pro internal print driver that installed into the ventura 10 print dialog framework. Dont know if thats the same thing you are talking about it.

 

Chris 

Chris --

The Acrobat 7 Pro driver should be fine (we use it here).

As I said before, I'm about 99% sure that you could solve the PDF issues you are having -- but we'll need to know what they are first.