<s>
Ventura	B-Application
Publisher	I-Application
was	O
the	O
first	O
popular	O
desktop	O
publishing	O
package	O
for	O
IBM	B-Device
PC	I-Device
compatible	O
computers	O
running	O
the	O
GEM	B-Application
extension	O
to	O
the	O
DOS	B-Device
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
ran	O
under	O
an	O
included	O
run-time	B-Device
copy	O
of	O
Digital	O
Research	O
's	O
GEM	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
Ventura	B-Application
Publisher	I-Application
was	O
released	O
in	O
1986	O
,	O
with	O
worldwide	O
distribution	O
by	O
Xerox	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ventura	B-Application
Publisher	I-Application
had	O
some	O
text	O
editing	O
and	O
line	O
drawing	O
capabilities	O
of	O
its	O
own	O
,	O
but	O
it	O
was	O
designed	O
to	O
interface	O
with	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
word	O
processing	O
and	O
graphics	O
programs	O
rather	O
than	O
to	O
supplant	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
that	O
end	O
,	O
text	O
was	O
stored	O
in	O
,	O
loaded	O
from	O
,	O
and	O
saved	O
back	O
to	O
word	O
processor	O
files	O
in	O
the	O
native	O
formats	O
of	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
word	O
processors	O
,	O
including	O
WordPerfect	B-Application
,	O
Wordstar	B-Application
,	O
and	O
early	O
versions	O
of	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Word	I-Application
,	O
rather	O
than	O
being	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
chapter	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
working	O
with	O
the	O
files	O
outside	O
of	O
Ventura	B-Application
Publisher	I-Application
,	O
these	O
paragraph	O
tags	O
and	O
special	O
character	O
and	O
attribute	O
codes	O
could	O
be	O
freely	O
changed	O
,	O
the	O
same	O
as	O
any	O
other	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
tags	O
looked	O
very	O
much	O
like	O
HTML	B-Language
tags	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ventura	B-Application
Publisher	I-Application
was	O
the	O
first	O
major	O
typesetting	O
program	O
to	O
incorporate	O
the	O
concept	O
of	O
an	O
implicit	O
"	O
underlying	O
page	O
"	O
frame	O
,	O
and	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
to	O
incorporate	O
a	O
strong	O
"	O
style	O
sheet	O
"	O
concept	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
concepts	O
of	O
free-flowing	O
text	O
,	O
paragraph	O
tagging	O
,	O
and	O
codes	O
for	O
attributes	O
and	O
special	O
characters	O
anticipated	O
similar	O
concepts	O
inherent	O
in	O
HTML	B-Language
and	O
XML	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
major	O
strengths	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
DOS/GEM	O
edition	O
of	O
Ventura	B-Application
Publisher	I-Application
were	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
ability	O
to	O
print	O
to	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
devices	O
,	O
including	O
PostScript	B-Language
,	O
PCL	O
,	O
and	O
InterPress	B-Language
laser	O
printers	O
and	O
imagesetters	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
certain	O
popular	O
dot-matrix	O
printers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
developers	O
from	O
the	O
original	O
company	O
worked	O
with	O
the	O
new	O
Xerox	B-Application
Ventura	I-Application
Software	O
company	O
to	O
produce	O
Version	O
3.0	O
Gold	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Besides	O
DOS/GEM	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
also	O
available	O
for	O
Win16	B-Library
,	O
Mac	B-Device
,	O
and	O
OS/2	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
repackaged	O
and	O
soon	O
released	O
as	O
Corel	B-Application
Ventura	I-Application
4.2	O
without	O
any	O
major	O
change	O
in	O
the	O
application	O
,	O
other	O
than	O
to	O
drop	O
all	O
support	O
for	O
platforms	O
other	O
than	O
Microsoft	O
Windows	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
of	O
this	O
,	O
and	O
because	O
of	O
escalating	O
requirements	O
of	O
the	O
various	O
Corel	O
versions	O
,	O
the	O
original	O
DOS/GEM	O
edition	O
still	O
has	O
a	O
small	O
number	O
of	O
die-hard	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
application	O
was	O
rewritten	O
for	O
the	O
Win32	B-Library
platform	O
and	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
1996	O
,	O
labeled	O
Corel	B-Application
Ventura	I-Application
7	O
(	O
instead	O
of	O
6	O
)	O
so	O
that	O
it	O
would	O
match	O
the	O
version	O
number	O
of	O
CorelDRAW	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Corel	B-Application
Ventura	I-Application
8	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
1998	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
last	O
published	O
version	O
was	O
Corel	B-Application
Ventura	I-Application
10	O
in	O
2002	O
(	O
last	O
updated	O
in	O
February	O
2003	O
)	O
;	O
it	O
reportedly	O
runs	O
in	O
Windows	O
10	O
under	O
compatibility	O
mode	O
with	O
some	O
functional	O
limitations	O
after	O
workarounds	O
,	O
and	O
on	O
Linux	O
via	O
Wine	B-Application
(	O
verified	O
in	O
April	O
2020	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
application	O
with	O
strengths	O
in	O
more	O
structured	O
documents	O
,	O
its	O
main	O
competitors	O
were	O
FrameMaker	B-Device
,	O
QuarkXPress	B-Operating_System
and	O
later	O
InDesign	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
