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Well come back to this point shortly, but first it must be said without qualification that Venturas competition has absolutely nothing on version 7.0. This program is prodigiously powerful, faster than it has any right to be, and with the maintenance release of May, stable enough to be trusted with your largest and scariest books, manuals, and catalogs. This is the release that frustrated users have been waiting for sincewell, since 1989 when they were first informed that a version of Ventura Publisher was being readied for the new Windows 3.0 operating system. Through a poor version 3.0, a quirky version 4.x, a perfectly dismal version 5.0, and a non-existent version 6.0, Ventura barely has cause to still be breathing, and were it not for Corel taking over the software in 1994, the patient would undoubtedly be six feet under right now. Couple this with the fact that Corel got its start in the industry as a rider on Venturas coattailslong before DRAW made the Ottawa company famousand you add the irony to the story that makes it one for the annals. (More irony: Ventura users no longer look at PageMaker as Public Enemy No. 1; they reserve that venom for WordPerfect, the program that threatens to eclipse Ventura into oblivion as Corels new darling.) These are a few of the reasons why my spot for Ventura will always be soft. This is the type of history that engenders a level of loyalty that no other program could hope to achieve. While the ranks have dwindled to near-fatal levels, those who have stuck around are likely to be users for life. We see a few hundred of these users at the Summit each year, and it is a feeling beyond compare and description to be surrounded by a group of such passionate and committed users.
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