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Ventura References
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Books and Publications:
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**** Check out http://www.anzai.com for Corel-certified Draw and Ventura step-by-step training manuals.

**** VUEPoint magazine (ISSN 1090-3437) also has great Ventura coverage. Check out http://www.venturalady.com for more info.


Conferences
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**** Rick Altman has lots of Ventura information at http://www.altman.com/ and puts on conferences with great Ventura fare.


Electronic Resources
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**** You can access the Corel Ventura newsgroups from your browser via:
news://cnews.corel.com/corel.Ventura10
news://cnews.corel.com/corel.Ventura_older_versions

**** To subscribe to Ventura-D, Bob van Duuren's Ventura Discussion list (in English), send a message that contains the following command to listserv@plaza.inventiv-edu.nl

sub ventura-d <Your name>

(replace <Your name> with your actual name, without the brackets.)

**** Also, visit the Ventura FAQ that Eric Weber and Bob maintain on Bob's site at http://www.draw.nu/venturafaq/ or download a PDF copy at http://www.fhcomm.com/VenturaFAQ.pdf

**** The CorelUser website has some excellent Ventura coverage. You can find out more at http://www.coreluser.com

**** You'll find some good Ventura information, scripts, etc. at http://www.solid-us.com

**** At http://www.i-us.com/corel.htm, you'll find a Ventura forum.

**** The German Ventura User Forum (which includes some English pages as well) can be found at http://www.dtp-service.com/ventura/

**** Uli Albrecht has set up a German Ventura site focusing on publishing issues at http://lorem.info/.

**** Jim Hart has a great discussion on text import at http://www.microtecniqs.com/html/text_import.htm

Scripts and Add-ons
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**** You can download several of Eric Weber's scripts from:
V8: http://www.fhcomm.com/EJW_Scripts8.zip
V10: http://www.fhcomm.com/EJW_Scripts10.zip

**** Bob van Duuren has a very useful script that allows you to export and import publication settings at
http://www.draw.nu/venturafaq/scripts/pubpresets.zip

**** Gábor Deák Jahn, our favorite Hungarian, has a great collection of scripts and tools at his site. Although much of the site is in Hungarian, you will find English links at the bottom of the sidebar. You can find his site at:
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/ventura

**** Werner Perplies has some helpful scripts at:
http://www.weepee.biz/en/

**** Abe Hendin has some scripts available on his site as well as a tutorial on how to get started scripting at
http://www.yourspeed.com/vscripts.html
http://www.yourspeed.com/vscripthelp.html

*** Andrew Fenton has a script called Olde Chap that can be used to manage the publication name and version, chapter name and version, and chapter page counts across a publication. You can download it from:
http://yourspeed.com/dnl/vscripts/Fenton_OChapV10.zip

**** Check out http://www.graphics-guy.net/ for an excellent (and free) text import utility (Import Text Plus), along with other assorted goodies, courtesy of John Faunce.

**** Richard Treadgold has put together a nice pair of scripts that enable him to easily publish to PDF and an HTML Help System from the same VP. Have a look at
http://www.wordshine.com/ventura/scripts01.php

**** Kurt Crisman developed a script to insert a frame, containing a picture and a caption with a figure number and title, and anchor the frame to a paragraph. Joe Miller did some modifications. You can find it at
http://www.fhcomm.com/KC_Scripts.zip

**** Alex Vakulenko (a scripting wizard) has a good reference for CorelScript and some scripts at
http://www.oberonplace.com/

Miscellaneous
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**** Cristofer Morley has some very valuable info on using ACAD with Ventura (that covers several versions of each program) at http://www.benway.com/ventura/index.html

**** You can submit Ventura comments/suggestions via email to: venturaprodman@corel.com

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