I need to open pagemaker 5 files that were created on the Mac.

Question

I downloaded Indesign cs4 but it blows up when I try to open the pagemaker file.  Can anybody tell me how to make this work or should I be using a different program?

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply but how would you unembedd the graphics if you
can't open the document?
That's why you (um, I) need to keep your dead tech around; the only way to unembed the graphics is to open the document in the app that created it. Quite often, when I need to resurrect a dead PageMaker doc, I have to use the importer in PM 7 to extract the stories. I don't need to do so too often, but I'm quite glad I kept the old stuff around when a client shows up with something ancient.
It's more critical for me, actually, because a fair number of the old translations we've kept in our archive that were made that long ago used terribly obscure and/or modified T1 fonts for which I have to write javascript codepage converters in ID. If I couldn't open up the old files easily, then doing a proof of the conversion process would be a painful, time-consuming, eyesight-destroying job.
Can you tell me about your non profit and the refugees that you work with?
Well, I don't really work direcly with refugees myself, I spend a lot more time working with their writing systems.   However, if you want to learn about the organization for which I spend my time juggling Burmese and Amharic and et cetera, direct your browser to www.irco.org. There is a great deal going on here that has nothing to do with the translation department.