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Our company recently inquired about the new version of Corel Ventura. We
were told that this initial release (version 4.2) was simply an attempt to
fix a number of bugs (literally thousands) that existed in version 4.1.1;
I guess they threw in the clipart and Adobe Acrobat Reader (allows
creation of Hypertext links) as an added bonus, as John Russell suggests.
Corel also told us that they will be releasing an all new version, 5.0, in
June, but we didn't received any information about what will be included with
that release.
> My company recently upgraded to Corel Ventura 4.2. [stuff deleted]
> The nicest thing is that you get this cool CD with over 10,000 clipart
> images! (But that's Corel's product.)
> You get a bunch of other stuff, too. Corel really sweatened the pot to
> keep its customer base loyal. But there's nothing really *NEW* in it.
> [more stuff deleted]
> kjr
> johnr -at- lurch -dot- brs -dot- com
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