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Corel Ventura

Overview

Ventura was the first PC based DTP package and Corel have consistently improved and developed the product since its early days. Ventura is the ideal application for the development of newsletters, books, and adverts. It now also provides excellent facilities to painlessly convert publications into interactive web-pages making it an excellent web design tool.

This course uses a series of practical exercises that take the user through the DTP design process creating a range of publications and solving practical real-world problems with fonts, colours, file conversion and so on. The course will also help new users develop their ‘eye’ for good design style and seasoned professionals appreciate the rich feature set available in Ventura.

  • Create newsletters, pamphlets and structured documents
  • Import early files into Ventura format
  • Convert publications into dynamic Web pages
  • Understand the print and publication processes
  • Interact with other design tools

… and much more

  • Overview of Ventura
  • Free-form editing
  • Tabs and indentation
  • Bullets and numbering
  • Paragraph tags
  • Autonumber options
  • Importing text and graphics
  • Graphic file formats
  • Text frames
  • Multi-Column documents
  • Linking frames
  • Graphic run-arounds and envelopes
  • Merging, delete and splitting cells
  • Borders and shading
  • Graphic objects
  • Grouping, aligning and distributing shapes
  • Preparing for the printer
  • Pantone colour system
  • Font matching
  • Document templates
  • Web documents
  • Hyperlinks
  • Web graphic formats
  • Long documents
  • DTP design guidelines

To be able to edit and create simple page layouts. To work with textflows and reshape text paths. To be able to align, distribute and re-size graphics. To be able to produce newsletters, pamphlets, structured documents and adverts in Ventura. To prepare documents for correct colour separation. To understand graphic and text file formats.

Anyone needing to produce high quality professional documents using VENTURA including those who may have some experience using earlier versions or similar packages wishing to get the most from the package.
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