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From: rick@trlamct.trl.oz.au (Rick Coxhill)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Ventura/Pagemaker ?
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Date: 2 May 91 22:41:28 GMT
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I use Ventura and Corel Draw. I have no experience with Pagemaker.
I nearly always use Corel Draw for single page compositions and multipage
compositions where the text does not need to flow from page to page. I
recently did an 8 page catalogue in Corel Draw. For single page
compositions, Corel Draw is ideal.

I have a few hangups about Ventura:
	There is no "undo" command
	I don't find it intuitive
	It cannot do A3 size paper
	Text cannot flow backwards (try doing a 4 page A5 brochure set up
	on A4 paper in landscape mode where pages 1 & 4 (of the A5 brochure)
	are on one Ventura page and pages 3 & 4 (of the A5 brochure) are
	on another Ventura page AND you need to flow text between all 4 pages
	of the A4 brochure)
	You cannot "group" objects
	You cannot position objects accurately on a page

To be fair to Ventura, it is not really designed to do single page compositions.
I suspect Pagemaker is better for this.


Email: r.coxhill@trlamct.trl.oz.au  Fax: 61 3 541 8863  Tel: 61 3 541 6249 
Rick Coxhill. Telecom Australia Research Labs. Clayton. Vic. Australia