Book Description

Desk-top publishing--one of the fastest growing applications of personal computers--offers the capacity to produce professional quality documents in a vast array of styles. Xerox Ventura Publisher is one of the most popular desk-top publishing packages, now released in version 2.0. Ventura is very powerful, permitting the user to have full control over all typesetting functions. However, this very power leads to the complexity of both the package and its documentation. The result for many potential users is initial bewilderment and loss of enthusiasm. In this new book, Colin Day bridges the "readability" gap between the uninitiated beginner and the instruction manual. In a straightforward step-by-step approach, he shows how to use Ventura with a pre-existing style sheet, and progresses to the design and subsequent development of individualized systems. Once the basic methods are covered, advanced and supplementary topics are treated in a reference format. In the final part of the book, the new "Professional Extension" is described, which allows typesetting of equations, tables, and other difficult material. This is an ideal reference for every user of the popular Ventura software, whether at home, at school, or in the office.