Are there any "corel" plans to release a "professional page layout" program, something like Adobe INDD?
That is something we have discussed several times in this forum, but I cannot give information about what is spoken in Corel.In my personal opinion (and I repeat, it is only my opinion) the simplest thing would be to acquire QurkXpress, a consolidated program on Mac and Windows, with extensive experience, and with many users. In addition, many commands are similar in both.
I don't disagree, Ventura would be a complete rewrite and buying another aplication would simply mean interfacing. In my area I only know of two companies using Quark anymore.
That's a good question, re the investors.
As regards past releases, yep, 2018 is pretty darn good/stable. As I didn't use (still don't) the font manager, X8 was also a good release for me.
Release 2019 is why I decided to just stick with v.2018 for now. I'll stay off the merry-go-round for X amount of time. Hopefully the warts in the purchasing thing will revert and more stable releases will happen. I don't have too many years of dealing with all this crap from various software developers in my future.
My hobbies don't include computers.
For the fist time in 20 years I'm running 2 versions on my systems, 2018 and 2019. I need the improved PDF output that I've been pushing for 8 years and that finally came with 2019 but the rest of 2019 can just go away.