@HEADLINE 2 = Xerox <->Announces Ventura 3.0

SAN DIEGO, CA, Summer, 1990 <197> Xerox Desktop Software today announced 
another generation of Ventura Publisher<M^><190><D> software products 
that provide advanced desktop publishing features never before available 
to personal computer users. The Ventura Publisher 3.0 product family 
is now available for GEM, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

The new products provide users of Ventura Publisher 3.0 <197> which 
mar<->ket share and industry reviews recognize as the leading MS-DOS<196>based 
desktop publishing software <197> upward migration to networked and 
pro<->fessional publishing capabilities. The features previously available 
only with Xerox's Professional Extension and Network Server are now 
available as a standard part of the new 3.0 release.

The three products included in the new software family are Ventura 
Publisher 3.0: GEM Edition, Ventura Publisher 3.0: Windows Edition, 
and Ventura Publisher 3.0: OS/2 Edition.

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. <169>We now provide professional 
publishing for all major IBM PC platforms,<170> said Larry Gerhard, 
President of Xerox Desktop Software. <169>Our Network Server was the 
first desktop publishing product to support concurrent multiple users 
on a local area network. Our Professional Extension software was the 
first to add a variety of advanced professional features for creating 
a broad assortment of documents. By making these features available 
under Microsoft Windows and OS/2, as well as GEM, we provide our users 
with advanced publishing features tailored to their particular platform.

<B>Ventura Publisher 3.0<D>

The ease-of-use enhancements will help users realize full value from 
the 3.0 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.