Indesign+Pagemaker

Hat einer Erfahrungen bzg. der Umwandlung von Pagemakerdokumenten in HTMl? Wir haben einen Produktkatalog im Pagemakerformat der sowohl Bilder als auch Textfelder beinhaltet. Diesen möchten wir gerne im HTML Format ins Internet stellen. Kennt jemand eine gute Möglichkeit, Pagemakerdateien möglichst 1:1 ins Html zu konvertieren ? Die verwendet Schriftart im Pagemaker ist Helv und die Schriftgröße 8.

Warum verwendest du nicht PDF, das ist auch fürs Internet gut und ist die einzige Möglichkeit das Layout präzsie für den Empfänger zu definieren.
Beim PageMaker hast du ja auch den Distiller dabei, da brauchst du nur unter Ablage/Datei: Als PDF exportieren ... den Befehl anstoßen.
http://www.wgAdelberger.de

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Pages vs Quark/InDesign/Pagemaker

I have a friend who has been using Pagemaker on a PC for several years in his business. He now wants to switch to a Mac. As I go over his options the cost of new software has been a deal-buster (Quark - $700, Creative Suite - $1000).
I wonder if iWork might get him by. He builds 8-up "cards" on 8.5" x 11" sheets in Pagemaker. Is this something that could be done in Pages - does it use text blocks like Quark and InDesign?
Also: What are the "Advanced image tools"? Are these image editing tools such as those in Photoshop?
Thanks

Answer to my own question:
I downloaded iWork 08 and gave Pages a look. It's much the same as Appleworks and seems that it would be Appleworks had they chosen not to repackage it as Pages.
It's nice - feels like a 100% Apple (corporation) program. The interface is cool and the functions provided are nice - where else are you going to get drop shadows and linked text boxes with run-around for $79. It has great navigation for positioning elements. It smokes Word by a mile for 99% of what most people buy Word for (not doctorial theses).
I'm sure that lots of wonderful work will be produced with this program. If you plan to build jobs for electronic distribution via pdf or print to a desktop printer it's great.
But, it's not useable in in the real graphic arts production world because:
No support for Pantone colors or spot colors.
Type manipulation is non existent - no scaling or kerning. You can’t set leading (it uses line spacing). No space before or after and so on.
No control of graphic files once they are imported. Are they imbedded? It converts Illustrator eps files to pdf on import.
I wish I had bought it instead of Microsoft Office but I'll have to stick with Quark and InDesign - I will recommend it for my friend.

Why has the opening of a Pagemaker file into InDesign CC been removed?

We receive many publications that have been produced by Pagemaker. We open and convert to InDesign for our publishing input. InDesign CC has removed this feature which now means we will have to always keep InDesign 6 installed on our system.

Don't expect an official Adobe "answer" to this question. This is my opinion.
Anyone who has observed the graphic arts field the last decade or so has seen this coming. According to Wikipedia, "The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as "languishing on life support". Adobe ceased all development of PageMaker in 2004 and "strongly encouraged" users to migrate to InDesign, initially via special "InDesign PageMaker Edition" and "PageMaker Plug-in" versions that added PageMaker's data merge, bullet and numbering features to InDesign, and provided PageMaker-oriented help topics, complimentary Myriad Pro fonts and templates. From 2005 these features were bundled into InDesign CS2, which was offered at half-price to existing PageMaker customers."
With the arrival of InDesign CC, the entire application has to be re-written for 64 bit and, on the Mac, using a different set of system calls. The number of people who still use Pagemaker are minuscule, and it wasn't worth it to port the feature over. Since InDesign CS6 still supports importing Pagemaker files there is a route for the tiny number of people who need to feature.
I'm pretty sure that this will not change in the future so you should get used to it.

Convert pagemaker file to PDF error message

I have a pagemaker file created in Pagemaker 7 which I own. I want to save it as a PDF file. when i select export and then Adobe PDF I get an error message : "cannot register Plug in. Please reinstall the plus in component" I have my PM7 disc.Does this mean I will have to reinstall the entie program?

andir10621923 wrote:
It stinks that they stop supporting it.
The last version of PM was July 2001, all development stopped in 2004 and all support ceased in August 2010.
After InDesign (Pagemaker 8?) came on stream in around 2000, there were several years of heavily discounted upgrades for PM users.
So it's not as if it's just happened.

Como se es esto

Hola
Tengo InDesign CS, pero nunca lo he usado --o casi nunca-- y siento que debería de aprender. Bueno, mi primera pregunta por hoy es: Si voy a hacer un libro de 10 paginas y InDesign me dice que la primera pagina a la izquierda es la numero 1 y la derecha es la 2, y asi susesivamente, entonces, cual es la portada? La pagina 2 o la pagina 1 ?
Gracias y perdonen mi escritura
Daniel Ulysses

Hola Daniel...
Yo no uso Indesign, prefiero Quark, pero te voy a hablar sobre las ventajas de usar programas de maquetación (Indesign, Pagemaker, Quark, ect) sobre otras aplicaciones.
1) Control total sobre el texto, puedes crear estilos, ajustar valores de trapping, ajustar condiciones de parrafo y caracter a tus estilos, (cosas que no hace, freehand, Ill o Photoshop).
2) Compatibilidad con los estilos creados en MS Word, te permite importar un archivo de word sin perder las caracteristicas de los estilos creados en word.
3) Capacidad de crear pagina maestras
4) En el caso de Indesign, compatibilidad entre Ill y Photoshop.
Para que conozcas mas sobre los programas de maquetacion o diagramacion puedes revisar http://www.adobe.es/products/indesign/overview.html (esta en español, si te es mas comodo busca la misma informacion en la parte de ingles)
Estos programas te permiten trabajar con muchas paginas a la vez, creando un documento flexible, de bajo tamaño, y con compatibilidad con los otros programas, ademas tienen funciones automaticas parecidas a las de word, crear indices, tablas, numeraciones automaticas, pies de paginas, ect., cosas que no hace photoshop. Ademas estos programas estan preparados para desarrollar imposiciones y hacer el montaje de tu trabajo en los pliegos de impresion, tomando en cuenta de como va a ser impreso, ademas del tipo de encuadernacion que se va a utilizar.
CUIDADO AL UTILIZAR PHOTOSHOP AL TRABAJAR CON LA "TRIPA" DEL BROCHURE...
Acuerdate que photoshop es un programa de edición de mapas de bits y no de vectores, de ese modo los textos quedaran como mapas e bits, y puedes obtener resultados no deseados al momento de imprimir tu trabajo. Ademas usando Indesign permites que tu proveedor de pre prensa pueda ajustar los valores de trapping, sobre impresion y colores directos, cosas que no se puede hacer en photoshop.
Bueno disculpa lo extenso, espero que te ayude a aclarar tus dudas...

Just how hard is it to learn FrameMaker?

If I am highly experienced with InDesign/Pagemaker, Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop, how hard would it be to come up to speed on FrameMaker? Any online training resources you would recommend to shorten the learning curve? I am interviewing for a tech writing job and need to know (a) how fast I can learn FrameMaker and (b) what online training resources you might recommend to get me there F-A-S-T!!

Some of it's a question of mind-set – if you're an experienced InDesign user, then you've already grasped the concepts of styles and page templates. My minimal experience (based on CS5 and FM 10) is that FM offers more for most documents unless you need really fancy lay-out … so the tricky bit (as usual) is working out where product A hides its equivalent for a command in product B; and the fun bit is discovering an idea in product A you'd never even thought of in years of getting to know product B.
The writing skills you bring to the interview are probably more important than the tools skills, imho. As long as you understand how to arrange different bits/types of information and how to make the presentation support the relationship between them, it shouldn't take long for you to add the basics of FM to your toolset. Learning the finer points takes practice, of course, but this forum is a good place for hints and tips.

How can I convert Pagemaker 7.0 file to InDesign CS5.5?

I have problem with open pagemaker file to InDesign CS5.5. Before I was using PageMaker 7.0. Now I have InDesign CS5.5 & tried to convert my old file to InDesign. But I am having problem to convert. When I convert Pagemaker File, all text looks uncleare and unredable. I can't edit text and tables. Below is a image after converting from pagemaker.

Start by reading the InDesign Help section on opening PageMaker files. It suggests some steps to do IN PAGEMAKER BEFORE you do the conversion:
•If the PageMaker file or its linked graphics are located on a network server, floppy disk, or removable drive, it may not open as expected if an interruption in data transfer occurs. To prevent data transfer problems, copy documents and their links to the hard disk, preferably in the same folder where the PageMaker publication is stored, before opening them in InDesign.
•You may want to use Save As in PageMaker to clear unnecessary hidden data.
•To ensure that all links are maintained, copy all linked files to the same folder where the PageMaker publication is stored.
•Make sure that all necessary fonts are available in InDesign.
•Repair broken graphics links in the PageMaker publication.
•If you have a problem converting a large PageMaker document, convert portions of the PageMaker file separately to isolate the problem.

How can i import .pmd files into Indesign CC, which where created with pagemaker?

Hello!
i have a problem with a new Installation of indesign cc... i can*t import old .pmd Pagemaker files into it!!
it was possible with Indesign cs6, but apparently no longer..!?
..is there an extension or anything else i could use?
thanks in advance for any Tip,
sincerely Sanitest

..well, the fact that i can install an older Version of id is an releave...!but! the fact that i cannot open .pmd file in id cc is .. in my humble opinion
a bad sign of things to come.. i mean sooner or later adobe will completely cancel the ability to download/use id cs6 ... and then what?... buy an old version of pagemaker
or id 1..cs6?
if anyone close to adobe has anything substantially to say.. please go ahead..!
best regards Sanitest

Network printing slow after updating to Tiger, InDesign from OS 9 PageMaker

Sorry for the "old" OS talk, but this is "new" to this shop (a small newspaper). Long overdue, I upgraded our 8 G4s to Tiger from OS 9. They're all networked to a G5, where all files are stored (graphics mostly). This G5 was installed a year ago with Tiger and served as a file server, connected via Ethernet (and SharePoints), to the OS 9 Macs. The printer is a color copier, an Océ cm2520, and DID a great job printing tabloid pages from PageMaker 7. The pages are comprised of mostly ads saved as PDFs, and some text. The pages range in size from less than 1mb to upwards of 10mb. The printer has 500mb of storage plus a 40gb HD built-in.
With OS 9 & PageMaker, tabloid pages would come out in less than one minute, the largest might've taken 3-4 minutes (big graphics & color). Now, with Tiger & InDesign CS3, the same pages take at least 15 minutes apiece to print! And even much longer when more than one page is sent at a time. The spooling part goes very quickly, but the printer takes forever to process the jobs. Nothing else has changed other than the OS and ID CS3. I did reinstall the printer with the current-most driver but no difference. I tried PDFing the pages and printing those, and that cut the print time about in half, which is still way too long and not practical on a "production" day. Small ID files still print quickly, but these PDF-ridden tabloid pages are ridiculous.
I first thought it was ID, but now am wondering if it might have something to do with how/where print jobs are spooled in OSX. Can anyone shed some light on where print files go once the Print button is hit? Is there a secret cache/print queue that might need cleaning out? Do the spooled jobs reside on the sending Macs or on the file server? I can't imagine that this one-year-old Océ printer just went bad coincidentally at the same time as the software upgrades.
Thanks for any help with this problem!

With no insight whatsoever from the manufacturer of the copier, I reformatted the internal hard disk. Life is back to normal! Apparently these HDs get fragged just like any other, so a periodic reformatting may take care of sluggish performance. Either that or the original formatting of the internal HD wasn't "compatible" with OS X.

InDesign CS4 fails to open PageMaker 6.5 files correctly

After upgrading to InDesign CS4 this week, I attempted to open a PageMaker 6.5 file. It opened, but the pages were out of sequence. PageMaker 6.5 pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., opened in InDesign CS4 as pages 1, 3, 2, 5, 4, etc.
I purchased InDesign CS4 last week for the sole purpose of working on two books I created in PageMaker 6.5. For me, at present InDesign CS4 is useless. I hope Adobe provides a fix soon.
Also the upgrade rejected my PageMaker 6.5 serial number, I tried all the fixes at the Adobe website, finally after half an hour on the phone I was given a challenge/response code which then launched InDesign. If I need to reinstall InDesign, I'll have to go through the challenge response process again, i.e. another long wait on the support line.
I'm using OS 10.5.5 on the newest, unibody PowerBook Pro.

From the help files:
Flow text semi-automatically
With a loaded text icon, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) a page or frame.
The text flows one column at a time, as in manual flow, but the loaded text icon automatically reloads after each column is placed.
Flow text automatically
With the loaded text icon displayed, hold down Shift as you do one of the following:
Click the loaded text icon in a column to create a frame the width of that column. InDesign creates new text frames and new document pages until all text is added to the document.
Click inside a text frame that is based on a master text frame. The text autoflows into the document page frame and generates new pages as needed, using the master frames attributes. (See About masters, stacking order, and layers.)
Flow text automatically without adding pages
With a loaded text icon, hold down Shift+Alt (Windows) or Shift+Option (Mac OS).

How do I open a PageMaker document in InDesign CS5?

When I try to open a PageMaker document with InDesign CS5 (Mac OSX 10.7.5) I get an error message that it "Cannot Open file.... Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format might be missing, or the file may be open in another application." It's certainly not open in another application anywhere, It is, indeed, a PageMaker document which is supposed to be supported. Before updating to current Mac OS, I used to be able to easily open this file with an old copy of PageMaker, but that no longer works on this OS!
Thank you!

Hi, Mike,
     I found another copy of this file on my laptop and I think it might not be broken. When I try to open it in text edit or Mellel, I get a much larger document with much of the material I know is supposed to be there. Would you be open to giving it one last shot? The new dropbox link is https://www.dropbox.com/s/12eqa6hh6tlse89/New%20Kabbalat%20Shabbat%20CBH (which, I know, looks like the old one, but I deleted that file and just uploaded this one).
     If you can open and save it (possible saving it in PM 6.5 or some other form I can than open with InDesign, or just sending me a pdf, I'd be very grateful.
     You can reach me at hlzeitlin AT aya DOT yale DOT edu. As thanks, enjoy the music on this link, https://www.dropbox.com/s/h1zix2ukzyt8ags/STE-90610-047.wav.
     Many thanks, Harry

Can't open Pagemaker files in InDesign Cs2

In the past i could usually open any Pagemaker 6 or 6.5 file in InDesign CS2. However this doesn't work anymore. I get a message o the screen telling me the file is corrupt and can't be opened. ( i can't really post the original message i get as it is in german).
This happens for any Pagemaker 6 or 6.5 file i have in my repository (and there are still many left so i had tried several ones from different dates and PM Versions)
As a first aid I tried to reinstall InDesign CS2 from the original discs. I uninstalledit before and did a restart of the Machine before i reinstalled it.
I use a Windows XP baesed system.
Does anyone have any idea on what i could try to get that back to work?

http://indesignsecrets.com/windows-xp-service-pack-3-breaks-indesign-cs2-pagemaker-convers ion-capability.php
Bob

Can I open .pmd files in indesign? And how? Since indesign is a "substitute" for PageMaker it should/must be possible, but I don't know how to do it

Can I open .pmd files in indesign? And how? Since indesign is a "substitute" for PageMaker it should/must be possible, but I don't know how to do it

CS6 was the last version capable of opening Pagemaker files. It's included with Cloud subscriptions, so if you don't have it installed (or an earlier version) you can download it from your cloud subscription.
To open them you use File > Open..., but the quality of conversion can range between nearly perfect and total garbage, depending on the PM file and the status of links (unembed images before trying to convert).

Converting from Pagemaker 7.0 to Indesign CS3

Lots of questions here I'm afraid, but it would be a massive help if I could get this sorted, and I only have a week or two to do it.
My colleague and I are writing an English language textbook, with separate teacher's guide and student's book. It is currently in Pagemaker but we have had a number of problems with it, including:
1. Some pages will not PDF. Various error messages are given, none of which I understand.
2. On the pages that will PDF, most of the Excel tables become black or grey boxes. They were inserted into the document via Edit>Insert Object but it does not seem possible to link them (doesn't accept OLEs or something). Nor can I Place them due to some unknown error.
3. Some of the objects, esp those pasted in from Word, jump around when PDFfing.
4. Some text and objects move when transferring between computers, messing up the formatting. This may be because my colleague and I have different printers installed, so we can't set it to the same one.
Due to these and other problems, we're thinking of transferring the book to Indesign CS3. However, I have the following problems:
1. When I try to open the Student's Book (SB), it tries to convert it to ID format, but before it opens the whole programme shuts down. There is no message or other indication of what the problem might be. It will open sections of the book when saved as different files, but not the whole thing at once. (The Teacher's Book [TB]) opens fine.)
2. The Excel tables once again become black boxes, like when PDFfing from PM. I know I can redo them either by pasting in and creating table from text (which loses formatting), or by saving the files and Placing them (saves formatting but takes a while to save each file), but there are about 230 such tables and it would take forever.
3. Other objects, such as speech bubbles pasted from Word, some Excel tables and some photos, become very low quality. They stay like this when pdffed.
4. When I open sections of the SB, the text that was in other colours all changes to black. Eventually it will all be in black anyway, but I have highlighted some text in red and blue that I want to come back to later.
In addition to solving those problems, I'd appreciate it if you could tell me:
1. if it's possible to insert multiple pages of another ID file, so that separate documents become one, as in Acrobat. (This would allow my colleague and I to work on different sections of the book at the same time but still end up with one document.) The Place function creates one solid object (if that's the right word), with all separate objects merged, and is low quality like the images/tables mentioned earlier.
2. if it's possible to save the formatting when pasting tables from Excel (and I mean pasting, not importing).
3. if it's possible to create speech bubbles (callouts) in ID. I need loads of them. They don't seem to be in the Shapes section.
4. if it creates problems if you paste stuff in without linking, e.g. speech bubbles and arrows from Word, images from PM, etc. I know it makes the file bigger, but apart from that? Someone said that may be behind the problems we had with PM.
Thanks heaps for any help.
Derek

#1. This is the hardest one.
First, just because it shows in Pagemaker, doesn't mean it should show in Indesign. Pagemaker lists all kinds of crap, PPD fonts, system fonts.
Courier (VGA res) is a screen font. ID won't (and shouldn't) list it and you shouldn't want to use it. Courier New is just about impossible to get rid of in Windows XP. You should substitute Courier New for Courier (VGA res).
I can't help much with Lucida Handwriting and Tekton Pro, except to
repeat my usual font advice:
1) Make sure the font is actually installed. Make sure it shows in
Control Panel > Fonts. If it's really there, delete it (make sure you
have a copy of it somewhere other than Fonts), reboot, and reinstall it. Install fonts with File > Install new font. Don't just dump it in the Fonts folder.
2) Make sure ID doesn't already list it. ID doesn't list all fonts
strictly alphabetically. For instance, note that Adobe Caslon shows up in the C section, not the A section. And Lucida Grande shows up at the bottom of the list with the Hebrew fonts. You can have a situation where you have Courier loaded, it shows in ID's font list, but on opening, ID tells you Courier is missing. The lesson here: there's more than one Courier and ID is smart enough to know the difference.
3) Search your hard drive(s) for adobefnt*.lst and delete all of the
found files. Make sure you search hidden and system folders.
4) Delete the stubborn font files and copy them from somewhere good (I think Lucida and Tekton come free with something Microsoft, probably Office). It's rare, but font files can be corrupted, and ID is more picky than most other apps.
5) Check Type > Find Font to see where your missing fonts are used. If they don't show up there, they may be used in a style but the style is not used. Maybe you don't need them at all. Maybe you just have a space or a return formatted in the missing font.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

Can't open or print .PMD files in Pagemaker 7.01 or InDesign CS or CC... HALP!

Good afternoon. I have Pagemaker 7.01 on a Windows 8.1 desktop - and have been using it just fine - until this past Wednesday - when suddenly, a file I've been able to open and print stopped working, and now every time I open Pagemaker, I get a PLUGIN ERROR message: "Plug-in cannot be completed. Some systems operations failed. [7212] [4816]" I checked for a fix, and all the postings suggested were I download a Reg Cleaner (BIG mistake... MAJOR scam, if ever there was one) and/or delete as many of my unused fonts, as that would be the culprit(s). Nope. Didn't fix a thing... relating to the issues we're having. I even attempted to open a back-up file - and got the same prompt. Ditto on a different computer (running Windows 7). SAME error message. I tried to access the file in InDesign, but - InDesign says it "may not support the file format, or a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing. I am lost without being able to access these files and print them. Does anyone have any suggestions?!
Sandy Korda
Curator
Orwell Museum
[email protected]

Have you tried opening one of the PM files with CS3?
If so, the result might range from acceptable to not so good. Part of it depends on the images being embedded or link, and the fonts. Sometimes the phase of the moon seems to come into play (not really, but it seems like that at times).
If you have your install for PM, you might hunt down an XP Pro computer and try installing PM on it you may have better success.
If you would like someone else to try, you would need to ZIP up the PM file(s) and upload to dropbox.com or another file sharing server and provide a link. If the files are sensitive, consider uploading them and sharing the link to download privately through the private messaging here.
Mike

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