VGR Converter

Extract text from Ventura Publisher documents (VGR)


Drop or upload your .VGR file
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How to extract text from your VGR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VGR file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert VGR to another file type

To convert VGR documents to another format, you need Corel Ventura Publisher or other Page Layout software.

Convert a file to VGR

To convert other file formats to the "Desktop Publishing Chapter" file type, you need software like Corel Ventura Publisher or a similar tool.


About VGR files

The .VGR file format is primarily used as a chapter file for Corel Ventura Publisher, a discontinued desktop publishing application. It is also used as a proprietary Norwegian Vector Map format by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. You need legacy installations of Corel Ventura to open the chapter files, or specialized VGR-Viewer software to load the Norwegian map data. Both formats are highly proprietary and practically obsolete. Ventura Publisher requires outdated operating systems, making .VGR files difficult to access on modern hardware. The files are not supported by web browsers and lack native support in modern desktop publishing or GIS software. Users usually want to convert Ventura .VGR chapters to PDF or DOCX for readability, while GIS users need to convert the vector map data to SHP or GeoJSON. Because .VGR files are closed binary or specialized formats, standard online converters often fail to process them. You usually need the original software to export the data. However, just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, inspect its internal contents, and view any embedded text. If our analysis detects a supported underlying structure, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your VGR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert VGR file to , you can use Corel Ventura Publisher or similar software from the "Page Layout or Map Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to VGR, try Corel Ventura Publisher or another comparable tool in the "Page Layout or Map Data" category.



The VGR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VGR converter.