Ventura Publisher 1.1

Ventura Publisher, originally from Xerox, is a professional desktop publishing program for the GEM graphical environment and later Windows. It has the distinction of being the first popular publishing program for the IBM PC platform. It competed with Aldus PageMaker, which initially was more popular on the Mac platform. There are also versions for Mac and OS/2.

Wanted: Mac and OS/2 versions.



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Release notes

Ventura Publisher 1.1 is a desktop publishing program from Xerox. It runs on DOS and uses the GEM graphical environment.

Installation instructions

This archive contains file zips of each disk, disk images, and label scans. To install, unzip the S1 zips to a folder and SUBST the folder for A:. Or use ImageDisk 1.18 to write the images to 360k disks. Original source is Bitsavers.

Product type
Application Publishing
Vendor
Xerox
Release date
1987
Minimum CPU
8088
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
3 (0 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Ventura Publisher 1.1 (5.25) 1.1 English 5.23MB 0
Ventura Publisher 1.1E Beta (2-28-1987) (5.25-360k) 1.1E Prerelease English 16.34MB 0
Ventura Publisher 1.1H Beta (3-13-1987) (5.25-360k) 1.1H Prerelease English 17.57MB 0
Ventura Publisher 1.1K Beta (4-3-1987) (5.25-360k) 1.1K Prerelease English 15.12MB 0
Ventura Publisher 1.1P Beta (4-10-1987) (5.25-360k) 1.1P Prerelease English 15.27MB 0

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