Ventura Publisher

Ventura Publisher was a desktop publication software package original built on the GEM VDI Metafile system by Digital Research. Distributed by Xerox until bought by Corel in 1993.

File Identification
Ventura Publisher versions 1-5 save its documents to the .CHP (Chapters) format, but also uses the following components :

Version 5 was redeveloped for Windows and included OLE support. Therefore .CHP, .STY, and .PUB formats changed to OLE containers.

Versions 7-10 use a single .VP file to store the full publication including stylesheets and chapters. .VP is based on the Microsoft Compound File format.

Corel VENTURA versions 3 to 5 save stylesheets externally with the filename extension STY. Versions later than version 5 save the stylesheet as part of the publication file. If you are importing tags from version 3 to version 5 publications, open the stylesheet file. If you are importing tags from a version later than version 5, open the publication file. Frame tags in versions 4 and 5 publications are stored in a chapter file with the filename extension CHP.

Software

 * Corel Ventura 7 Demo
 * DOS program to fix CHP files to update paths

Links

 * Corel Ventura
 * Ventura Publisher 1.1 Reference 1987