Have Pagemaker files need them coverted to something usable

[nephron]

Anyone with a set up that can read Pagemaker 6.0x files and port them to a modern page layout program (please be Pages) I would even be happy with PDFs.

This is a 500 page book I wrote in 1999 that is lingering useless on my hardrive

I would love to be able to access it.


Thanks


Joel Topf, MD

[jerryrock]

If you are referring to Pages as part of Apple iWorks, it pretty much a glorified word processor.

You should be looking at Adobe InDesign as a professional page layout program. It will open and convert your PageMaker 6.0 files natively.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d44.html

[TEG]

InDesign is the "upgrade" to PageMaker (really it is the replacement, since Adobe wanted something of their own, instead of supporting Aldus' software). You may be able to find some converters to other formats, but likely you will need InDesign, or a PageMaker to PDF converter that does not require a copy of PageMaker.

TEG

[IJ Reilly]

Your best bet is finding someone who has PageMaker and can export your document to something else, or save it as a PDF. If you can do this, the biggest problem you are likely to have is the fonts used in the original document. You'll have to be satisfied with something approximating the original. InDesign might also work, but I've never had much luck getting older PageMaker documents to open in InDesign.

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Your best bet is finding someone who has PageMaker and can export your document to something else, or save it as a PDF. If you can do this, the biggest problem you are likely to have is the fonts used in the original document. You'll have to be satisfied with something approximating the original. InDesign might also work, but I've never had much luck getting older PageMaker documents to open in InDesign.

My boss uses PageMaker 6.5 (even though he has ID CS2 on his PC...don't ask :rolleyes:). For some reason he can't export PDFs, so he sends the file to me on occasion and asks me to "convert it to a PDF" (again, don't ask :rolleyes:) for him. 99.9% of the time, I just open the file in ID CS3 and it's good to go. Sometimes tracking/kerning/etc. is a little off, so I have to move things around a bit, but that's about it.