From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Geo. says...
> "Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.185cc2aac1c46c9598b146{at}news.barkto.com...
>
> > I gave up on it after that. WordPerfect (I think v.6) gave me enough
> publishing
> > ability to do what I needed. That was basically long reports and some
> manuals. I
> > only had to fudge graphics and sidebars.
>
> Ventura developed into a nice program to do fairly long instruction manuals
> in. PageMaker was more of a single page or multipage flyer type program back
> then without the features to do an index or any of the small booklet type
> features. (it got those features with version 5 or so)

I appreciated Ventura's ability to do indices and TOCs. Word Perfect was also very
good at them at the time. I actually remember doing a training on indexing
for WPDOS. People came up after and said they were amazed it was so easy.

Sidebars were where Ventura shined though. You didn't have to play with
column widths at all. You created the sidebar the way you wanted it, then
inserted it into
the place you wanted. GEM was pretty cool for that, actually.

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