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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Ventura/PageMaker and Windows3
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Date: 21 Sep 90 08:19:26 GMT
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The latest edition of Ventura is the *first* to run under Windows.  The
previous version of Ventura ran under GEM, Digital Research's window
environment.  You can get still get a version of VP for GEM, and other
versions of VP for OS/2 and the Mac are allegedly on the way.  All are
called "Ventura Publisher Gold series".  All have all the features of
VP Extended Edition -- the hyphenation, vertical tracking, etc.

The first looks in PC Week and InfoWorld comment that the GEM version is
faster, but the Windows version lets you run other programs.  However, VP's
support for the Clipboard, Windows Metafile, PostScript fonts, etc. is not
as good as it could be.

The consultants down the hall from me are going to install their copy of VP
Gold for Windows soon, I'll report if they have any interesting feedback.

=S Page