Ventura Publisher had some text editing and line drawing capabilities of its own, but it was designed to interface with a wide variety of word processing and graphics programs rather than to supplant them.

This allowed users to continue using their favorite word processors for major text changes, spelling checks, and so forth.

When working with the files outside of Ventura Publisher, these paragraph tags and special character and attribute codes could be freely changed, the same as any other text.

[10] It was repackaged and soon released as Corel Ventura 4.2 without any major change in the application,[11] other than to drop all support for platforms other than Microsoft Windows.

[12] Because of this, and because of escalating hardware requirements of the various Corel versions, the original DOS/GEM edition still has a small number of die-hard users.

The last published version was Corel Ventura 10 in 2002 (last updated in February 2003); it reportedly runs in Windows 10 under compatibility mode with some functional limitations after workarounds, and on Linux via Wine (verified in April 2020).