WordPress plugin · Ventura Publisher

Publishing Tools for Corel Ventura

A modern WordPress publishing bridge for people who still rely on Ventura for serious long-document work.

Free: Ventura TXT/RTF export and basic legacy-text recovery. Pro: complete book projects, EPUB/HTML/Markdown publishing, advanced migration, and optional AI covers.

Free edition: $0 · Publisher Pro: $49 one-time purchase with updates and support for one registered site. No subscription or automatic renewal.

Free and Pro editions

Free 2.2.0 + Pro 1.0.0 are release candidates undergoing compatibility and checkout testing.

WordPress
6.2 or later

PHP
7.4 or later

Tested through
WordPress 7.1

License
GPL-2.0-or-later

Software support →

Turn your WordPress writing into Ventura production files and—through the optional Pro add-on—complete digital publishing projects.

Choose the edition that fits your work

Free — $0

Export WordPress posts and pages as Ventura marked text or RTF, with content selection, character-handling options, paragraph-tag mapping, and preflight. Recover basic legacy Ventura marked text as HTML or plain text.

Free is genuinely functional: Pro is not required for classic Ventura export.

Publisher Pro — $49 once

Add Book Builder with saved projects, front/back matter, ordering, indexing rules, covers, and production packages; EPUB 3, HTML, and Markdown publishing; advanced Ventura migration; and optional AI-assisted cover generation.

Pro is a separate add-on that requires the Free plugin.

Your Pro purchase, without a subscription

$49 one-time payment. Includes protected downloads, updates, and support services for one registered WordPress site. GPL rights to install, use, modify, or share the software are unchanged.
Permanent use of Publisher Pro 1.x. The purchased version does not expire.
Maintenance and security fixes for the purchased major version are included.
No automatic renewals. If a future major version is released, upgrading is optional and may cost extra (an upgrade price of about $29 is planned, not yet offered).
Declining a paid upgrade does not disable the version you purchased.

Release status: Free 2.2.0 and Publisher Pro 1.0.0 are testing candidates. Secure checkout is being configured; no paid orders are being accepted through this page yet. Contact Open Arts Press with questions.

How Free and Pro work together

Install and activate the free Publishing Tools for Corel Ventura plugin.
If you purchase Pro, download its separate ZIP from Open Arts Press and install it through WordPress Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
Activate Pro. Its advanced tools appear under the existing Ventura Publishing menu; there is no separate editing system to learn.

Important production details

Ventura still handles final page layout, page tags, pagination, and generation of the finished table of contents and index. EPUB and book-package generation require PHP ZIP support; optional cover generation requires a compatible WordPress AI Client setup on WordPress 7 or later and a separately configured provider. AI costs, if any, are charged by that provider, not included in the $49 software price.

Compatibility and privacy

Minimum WordPress 6.2 and PHP 7.4. The plugin sends no usage telemetry. Only explicitly requested remote-image packaging or AI cover generation contacts third-party services. Corel Ventura is a trademark of its owner; this is an independent interoperability project and is not affiliated with Corel.

Before release

These packages have not yet completed live WordPress integration and checkout testing, and the free edition has not been approved for the WordPress.org directory. We will publish the official download and purchase links only after testing and payment verification.