Ventura Publisher

File Format
Name	Ventura Publisher
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Desktop Publishing Ventura Publisher
Extension(s)	.chp, .gen, .pub, .sty, .gem, others
PRONOM	x-fmt/156, x-fmt/57
Released	1986

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

File Identification

Ventura Publisher saves its documents to the .CHP (Chapters) format, but also uses the following components:

Document File	Extension
Captions	CAP
Chapters	CHP
Chapter information	CIF
Frame tags file	FRM
Generated text	GEN
Graphics	VGR
HPGL converter settings	PRF
OLE object file	VPO
Publications	PUB
Style sheets	STY
Width tables	WID

Links

• Wikipedia: Corel Ventura
• Ventura Publisher 1.1 Reference 1987