Indesign Crashes when importing pagemaker

Question

I'm trying to import  old Pagemaker files - .p65. Every time I try Indesign (CS5)  crashes and gives the following crash report.
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    InDesign.exe
  Application Version:    7.0.4.553
  Application Timestamp:    4d890440
  Fault Module Name:    SPREAD.RPLN
  Fault Module Version:    7.0.4.553
  Fault Module Timestamp:    4d8908ac
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    00032b26
  OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    2057
  Additional Information 1:    0a9e
  Additional Information 2:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:    0a9e
  Additional Information 4:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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Any ideas welcome. I'm running on Windows 7.

Answer 1

Hello Phil,
I have often battled with the same problem -- one solution is to download and install the free trial version of PageMaker 7, open the old file there and save it as a new clean PM7 document.
That might have a better chance of not crashing InDesign.
Some crashes are caused by linked files not being found, so if you can unlink those (or all) while in PageMaker, that might also help ...
Good Luck!
Robert