PageMaker was the program that defined desktop publishing for the Macintosh platform back in 1985. But what about the PC? Three ex-Digital Research employees believed that desktop publishing could reach the masses of IBM and compatible users as well, so they started Ventura Software. Today, their product "Ventura Publisher" is a largely forgotten footnote in desktop publishing history.

• Computer Chronicles Revisited, Part 69 -- PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, and the DEST PC Scan Plus
• Computer Chronicles #408 -- Desktop Publishing, Part 2 (1986)
• Oral history with Paul Brainerd (Computer History Museum, 2006)
• Oral history panel with Paul Brainerd, Jonathan Seybold, Lee Lorenzen, and John Scull (Computer History Museum, 2017)
• Ted Silveira's review of Ventura Publisher (PROFILES Magazine, 1987)
• Podcast Music: "Scenic Detour" by Melody Ayres-Griffiths

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