PM 6.5, new install on Vista, not printing
Dan Musicant
(soon to be upgraded to Windows 7), and I print and everything seems to
go fine except my printer doesn't respond. The printer is a network
printer and is upstairs, so everytime I print my document I have to run
upstairs to find out if it printed! Of course, I've been spending the
last hour running up and down stairs.
What can I check here? Surely it can't be a Vista related problem. My
other laptop (also wirelessly connected) prints PM 6.5 documents fine to
the same printer. That laptop is running XP Pro. I installed PM 6.5 on
my new Vista laptop this morning and unchecked one of the HP PPDs,
thinking that surely my HP4M PS printer would be supported by Vista
itself. I did a reinistall, then an uninstall/reinstall. Somehow a lot
of settings were retained, because PM knew who I am, the SN. Is it a PPD
issue? Thanks for help.
Dan
Email: dmusicant at pacbell dot net
Dan Musicant
Changing back to PS, it did not print. What could be the matter here? By
default I normally print using he PS driver.
Denis Scadeng
6.5 but it said it is not compatible with W7 - not unexpected as it is an
old program. However, I have a lot of files written with PM6.5 - is there a
reader available so that I can look at them and print if necessary?
Denis
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<de...@burdon.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have just got a new computer with Windows 7. I tried to install PageMaker
> 6.5 but it said it is not compatible with W7 - not unexpected as it is an
> old program. However, I have a lot of files written with PM6.5 - is there a
> reader available so that I can look at them and print if necessary?
Sorry, the only way to use a PageMaker document is via PageMaker.
Adobe InDesign will convert PageMaker documents when you open them, but
the new versions are of course then no longer usable in PageMaker. (I also
vaguely remember a plug-in for Quark Xpress that does the same thing.)
You can also use a computer that can run PageMaker to export the documents
to PDFs, but then they are not really editable.
There may be a way to get PageMaker to run under Windows 7, but I use
Macs, so I don't know what it is or if it's possible (I know you used to
be able to run older Windows games under newer Windows versions using
Compatiblity Packs and turning on certain options).
Helpful Harry :o)
Karsten H. (7870)
Unfortunately there is only one thing, you can do; find a backup from
before January, 2011 and restore that to f.inst a separated partition or
to an old PC, which you then don't connect to the internet to avoid
future updates.
I've tried PM 5, which I've been using, and it still runs under Win 3.11
for work Groups, Win 95, Win 2000 an latest Win XP Prof.
Aldus Corporation was bought up by Adobe, and they released a Adobe
Pagemaker 7.0, non of the later versions are compatible with previous
versions
So there, I'm afraid, nothing else to do, but still I find the qualities
of PM5 or PM6 worth while to offer an obsolete PC, and then also install
Adobe Acrobat from where, you might find it in order to write PM6 files
to PDF files.
Take care
Karsten H.
Denis Scadeng
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In article <odcZp.62703$29.1...@newsfe08.ams2>, "Denis Scadeng"
<de...@burdon.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have just got a new computer with Windows 7. I tried to install
> PageMaker
> 6.5 but it said it is not compatible with W7 - not unexpected as it is an
> old program. However, I have a lot of files written with PM6.5 - is there
> a
> reader available so that I can look at them and print if necessary?
Sorry, the only way to use a PageMaker document is via PageMaker.
Adobe InDesign will convert PageMaker documents when you open them, but
the new versions are of course then no longer usable in PageMaker. (I also
vaguely remember a plug-in for Quark Xpress that does the same thing.)
You can also use a computer that can run PageMaker to export the documents
to PDFs, but then they are not really editable.
Many thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for. I didn't necessarily
want to edit just look at them. I did as you suggested, though I had to
download a PostScript printer driver from the Net and install it. No
problem.
I exported the pdf file and opened it in Adobe Reader. I copied and pasted
into Word so I can edit if I want to.
Thanks again. A thought, though - if PM 6.5 files are not compatible with
PM7 and if PM 6.5 won't install in Windows 7 then a lot of people will end
up with files they can't use. I would expect Adobe to produce a conversion
program - they seem to be letting down a lot of people.
Your Name
Newer versions of PageMaker have always been able to convert older
PageMaker documents, but the converted documents then can't be opened in
the older version of PageMaker (the original old document of course is
still there).
There is a peculiarity when moving documents between some older Mac and
Windows versions of PageMaker, but Adobe used to have a converter
application you could download from their website that worked around that.
Basically Adobe killed off PageMaker (after saying they weren't going to)
and users are meant to upgrade to the replacement product InDesign, which
can convert PageMaker documents to its own file format ... a file format
which is again only usable in InDesign (or possibly convertable to Quark
Xpress).
The problem is that although PageMaker was originally intended for
professional publishing, it also became popular in offices / schools /
etc. for in-house work where the cost of InDesign or Quark Xpress can be
prohibitively high. That means these office users are now stuck and have
to either pay up for InDesign / Quark Xpress, or re-create all their
documents in Microsoft Publisher / Word or Apple's Pages.
Helpful Harry :o)