@HEADLINE 2 = Xerox <->Announces Ventura 2.0

SAN DIEGO, CA, Sept. 6, 1988 <197> Xerox Corporation today announced 
a new generation of Xerox Ventura Publisher<M^><190><D> software products 
that provides advanced desktop publishing features never before available 
to personal computer users. The Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 product 
family incorporates more than 100 new features offering increased 
functionality and greater ease of use.

The new products provide users of Xerox Ventura Publisher 1.1, which 
mar<->ket share and industry reviews recognize as the leading MS-DOS<196>based 
desktop publishing software, upward migration to networked and pro<->fessional 
publishing capabilities.

The three products included in the new software family are Xerox Ventura 
Publisher 2.0, Xerox Ventura Publisher: Pro<->fessional Extension, 
and Xerox Ventura Publisher: Network Server.

The new products and features are the result of extensive research 
on the enhancements and capabilities most wanted by corporate and 
commercial users of desk<->top publishing. Xerox Ventura Publisher 
2.0 is the base product of the new family. Documents developed on 
version 1.1 are upward compatible to version 2.0. The Professional 
Extension and Network Ser<->ver products may each be purchased with 
Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 or added, either separately or together. 
Both of those new products work only as extensions of Xerox Ventura 
Publisher 2.0.

<169>We have significantly increased cap<->abilities in Xerox Ventura 
Publisher 2.0 and, at the same time, have simplified the user interface,<170> 
said Arthur E. Coles, vice president and general manager of the Xerox 
Desktop Software Business Unit. <169>Our Network Server is the first 
desktop publishing product to support concurrent multiple users on 
a local area network. Our Professional Extension software adds a variety 
of advanced professional features for creating a broad assortment 
of documents. The Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 family now incorporates 
features that even many workstation publishing systems cannot match.

<B>Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0<D>

The ease-of-use enhancements will help users realize full value from 
the 2.0 product family in minimal time. Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 
adds significant features to Xerox Ventura Publisher's long document 
capabilities, including enhanced automatic anchoring of illustrations 
to a point in the text and automatic page and figure numbers across 
chapters.

For example, Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 provides more than 300 context-sensitive 
help screens within the dialog boxes. Users may select preferred combinations 
of pull-down and pop-up menus, and many functions are selectable either 
by the mouse or by simple keyed commands. These features are designed 
to reduce learning time and make desktop publishing more readily accessible 
to a broader customer base.

Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 allows users to print in color on color 
PostScript printers, or print color separations to any black and white 
printer. Colors are defined by specifying their C, Y, M, and K (cyan, 
yellow, magenta, and black) values.

Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 has enhanced image support with Tag Image 
File Format (TIFF) file compatibility and gray scale image control 
to allow printing of a broad range of gray tones in black-and-white 
documents. Encapsulated PostScript files allow images to be imported 
from sophisticated graphics programs such as Adobe Illustrator.

To facilitate the production of short, design-intensive documents, 
Xerox Ventura Publisher 2.0 supports more flexible use of interactive 
font and kerning controls. The flexibility of these and other features 
fully supports the creation of documents ranging from a single page 
to hundreds of pages.

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