Re: Ig Nobel documentation

[David Farbey <david -at- farbey -dot- co -dot- uk>]

I used Ventura in my first TW job in 1994. I feel old!

David

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 08:10, Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:

> I'm interested! I used Ventura Publisher in the late 80s on for a few
> years. It was on an early version of Windows and I believe Ventura came
> with its own strange GUI program, can't remember what that was called...
>
> I have a friend who just kept using Ventura and as afar as I know he
> still uses it to publish some kind of catalog. I imagine it's in some
> virtual machine at this point. I recall his version was at least 17
> years old.
>
> Mark Giffin
> Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
> http://markgiffin.com/
>
> On 12/31/2019 7:10 PM, Jay Maechtlen wrote:
> > On 12/31/2019 5:27 PM, John Allred wrote:
> >> I used to be a strong proponent for Ventura, right up until my last
> >> update of equipment and OS in the past couple of months. Although
> >> Corel ceased upgrades past 2002, I continued using it for above 15
> >> years. Doubtful anyone is interested, but I have some sample docs on
> >> my portfolio web site that are incredibly complex. I couldn't imagine
> >> learning new software to accomplish what I did back then. One example
> >> is a telephone directory for state agencies and employees.  Ventura
> >> had a bundled database publisher that made this doable, with care and
> >> effort. http://nwatechwriting.com/docs/phonebook.pdf, if interested.
> >> FWIW, my name appears on page 35.
> >>
> >> Just feeling lowly at this mention, since I finally pulled the plug
> >> on it this month. I just couldn't make it operate under Win10.
> >>
> >> Very sad.
> >>
> >> ~John Allred
> >>
> > If I felt the need, I'd just run it on one of my win2k VMs, or maybe
> > an XP vm.
> >
> > Virtualbox is free...
> >
> >
> >> On 12/31/2019 7:12 PM, John G wrote:
> >>> Ventura  ...  that rings some very old bells...
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:06 PM Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- laserpubs -dot- com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 10/23/2018 8:54 AM, Lin Sims wrote:
> >>>>> People still index! At my current company, any document over about 20
> >>>> pages
> >>>>> (not including covers, TOCs, generated lists and legal stuff) gets an
> >>>>> index. This is a first for me, and I've been enjoying learning how to
> >>>>> create a (hopefully) good index.
> >>>> Nice - I think the last time I got to do an index was when I was still
> >>>> building manuals with Ventura.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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