Brief by Central Staff
Colorado Central – July 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
The magazine may look a little different this month, since we finally got around to upgrading our page-layout software.
Most publications use Macintosh computers, but when we started in 1994, we used Ventura Publisher, since it ran on the DOS/Windows computers we had at hand. That was version 4.1. Ventura was acquired by Corel (which makes the CorelDraw software we use for graphics), and when Corel Ventura version 5.0 came out in 1995, we quickly upgraded.
Corel Ventura 8 came out in 1998, and we bought it in 1999. We installed it, and discovered that it operated in substantially different ways than Version 5.0.
We despaired that we’d ever find time to learn our way around the new version, so we continued to use 5.0.
But finally we bit the bullet and started using the upgrade for this edition, number 101. And naturally, as we tried to master unfamiliar ways of doing familiar chores, this became the largest edition we’ve ever published — 56 pages, instead of the usual 40 or 48.
Not that we’re complaining about growth here, and we note that Colorado Central started on a kitchen table, and a lot of it still happens there.