Ventura Publisher 2.0

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 2.0 is a desktop publishing program from Xerox. It runs on DOS and uses the GEM graphical environment. This archive contains file zips of each disk.

Installation instructions

To install, unzip the zips to a folder and SUBST the folder for A:. Or unzip each to a floppy disk. The real credit goes to Bitsavers for archiving this fine piece of software.

Product type
Application Publishing
Vendor
Xerox
Release date
1988
Minimum CPU
8088
User interface
GUI
Platform
DOS
Download count
8 (1 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Ventura Publisher 2.0 (5.25) 2.0 English 2.06MB 1

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