Open pagemaker files software#
So, start up vmac, convert your PageMaker-files to PostScript and meet the future.įrom what I know, all software in the vMac image is either free software, shareware, freely distributable or abandonware. The image is based on the works from Mini vMac Applications and also contains Stuff-it and other tools. MiniUnzip - Unzip zip files you might have imported.ExportFi & ImportFi - for being able to import and export files from vMac.Creator Changer - for peeking at the file type.So, to make this quite frustrating adventure shorter for you, I have prepared a vMac-image, with the few tools you need and PageMaker 3 and 4 on it, ready to go. Because PageMaker 4 was the first version that gave me the possibility to also also print as postscript.
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Now, Why did I want to open even the old files in PageMaker 4.x you might ask. Great! Off to find PageMaker 3 (to be able to open the PageMaker 2 files in version 4 by converting them in PageMaker 3). There I could finally identify that the files were created by ALD4 and ALD2, that is, PageMaker 2 and 4 formats. After some more research I found the program Creator Changer. I did, after some search, find another source for the same files, that came straight from a mac disk image, and with more of the file metadata correct. I did not know about how terrible system 7 handles filemeta data information, so that led me to believe that the files were corrupted (Later I learnt they probably only had the wrong Creator Type). But, PageMaker 4.2 could not open the files. What about opening up these old files in a newer version of InDesign? No.Īfter installing vMac with system 7, and finding suitable programs for importing, exporting I was ready. Than you first would have to open them and save them in version 3 before going to 4 (and only on the same platform). Let us say you had PageMaker 2 files but PageMaker 4 installed. PageMaker could only open files on the version above it, and they had stay on the same platform.
Open pagemaker files trial#
It is the ancestor to InDesign.Īh - easy, I’ll just get a recent trial version of InDesign and convert them! After some trial and error I learnt that PageMakers fileformat was a special kind of guy - the kind of guy that comes to your house, knocks you down, steal your car keys and only gives them back after a ransom is paid.
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First, about PageMaker - PageMakers last version was 7, and it could run on different operating systems. As I never, ever, had used an Apple OS from before maybe 2006, (and still don’t do if I can avoid it), I had some read up to do.
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But he had been unsuccessful in opening them. Hmmm - a discussion with a fellow retro interested contact gave that he thought they were in PageMaker format. I was given some hints to as what they were by looking at them in a hexeditor - PM 4.2 it said.
Open pagemaker files manual#
I had a few manual files in an unknown format, and without any extensions that I wanted to read and convert.