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AdobePageMaker (formerly Aldus PageMaker) is a desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation on the Apple Macintosh.[1] The combination of the Macintosh's graphical user interface, PageMaker publishing software, and the Apple LaserWriter laser printer marked the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution. Ported to PCs running Windows 1.0 in 1987,[2] PageMaker helped to popularize both the Macintosh platform and the Windows environment.[3][4]

A key component that led to PageMaker's success was its native support for Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language. After Adobe purchased the majority of Aldus's assets (including FreeHand, PressWise, PageMaker, etc.) in 1994 and subsequently phased out the Aldus name, version 6 was released. The program remained a major force in the high-end DTP market through the early 1990s, but new features were slow in coming. By the mid-1990s, it faced increasing competition from QuarkXPress on the Mac, and to a lesser degree, Ventura on the PC, and by the end of the decade it was no longer a major force. Quark proposed buying the product and canceling it, but instead, in 1999 Adobe released their "Quark Killer", Adobe InDesign. The last major release of PageMaker came in 2001, and customers were offered InDesign licenses at a lower cost.

Development of PageMaker had flagged in the later years at Aldus and, by 1998, PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market[17] to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application code-named "Shuksan" (later "K2"), originally started by Aldus, openly planned and positioned as a "Quark killer". This was released as Adobe InDesign 1.0 in 1999.[18][19]

The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as "languishing on life support".[20] Adobe ceased all development of PageMaker in 2004 and "strongly encouraged" users to migrate to InDesign, initially through special "InDesign PageMaker Edition" and "PageMaker Plug-in" versions, which added PageMaker's data merge, bullet, and numbering features to InDesign, and provided PageMaker-oriented help topics, complimentary Myriad Pro fonts, and templates.[21] From 2005, these features were bundled into InDesign CS2, which was offered at half-price to existing PageMaker customers.[22][23]

BYTE in 1989 listed PageMaker 3.0 as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that it "is the program that showed many of us how to use the Macintosh to its full potential".[24]

Adobe PageMaker file formats use various filename extensions, including PMD, PM3, PM4, PM5, PM6 and P65; these should be able to be opened in the applications Collabora Online, LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice, they can then be saved into the OpenDocument format or other file formats.

Aldus Pagemaker 3 for Macintosh was shipped in April 1988.[12] PageMaker 3.0 for the PC was shipped in May 1988[13] and required Windows 2.0,[14] which was bundled as a run-time version.[15] Version 3.01 was available for OS/2 and took extensive advantage of multithreading for improved user responsiveness.

These can be rented out as props in a historical movie, however, making that connection is usually a pipe-dream, at best. Also, there are computer history museums and groups. The plus there is that if they're 501(c) 3, you can make a tax deductible donation for the "collectable" valuation. Much better than donating to thrift stores.

Best thing to do is have your throwaway eMail address hooked up to your personal website with pictures and contact ability. Pack it away nicely inside another box, label, log it and post it. Find a nice place to store it. Someday you may get a surprising eMail.

The company I work for still has a number of old Pagemaker files which I occasionally need to access. In the past I kept a copy of Indd CS6 installed on my machine so that I could convert them. However I recently got a new computer & when I went to install CS6 so that I can access these files I discovered that it is no longer an option. All the help forum posts & files still provide instructions as if it's just there in the app (drop down, manage, other versions).

I'm only a user on an Enterprise account... our IT never passed that memo down. It's real crappy that Adobe has essentially pulled all support for old Pagemaker files; as we have hundreds of legal documents in that format, from back in the day.

I wrote a techinal book on locksmithing using PageMaker 6.5. The publisher, our trade association (and I) want to reprint it. My CS6 won't touch it and when I called to ask for help I was very rudely told "we don't support that product anymore" and was hung up on.

After reflecting on this for a while and have concluded that it could be argued that this is a form of theft. I know. Caveat emptor. . I believe they owe us a way of retrieving our files, even if we have to pay a reasonable fee. I would even continue to rent Adobe software because I'm writing another book and some classes for a college here. I'm small potatoes. I suspect that Adobe doesn't really care about someone like me. But it seems that a lot of us are in the same fix and it feels that Adobe is doing this primarily because they can. Have you heard of anyone working on a class action to help little guys get our intellectual property back? Thank you.

I totally agree. I'm pretty sure Adobe can find a way -- if they want to, since they have all the tools -- to at least be able to import layout and content into an OCR PDF file. Common sence tells me so. But I don't know about a class action that evidently Adobe deserves for abandoning its users who paid big bucks for the software. I have plenty of documents files in PM3, PM4, PM5 and P65 that were recovered from a lost archive safe. Please, if some one knows a way to recover its content I have to assume there a lot of user like us going crazy. Thank you in advance.

And the idea of a class-action suit is laughable. For starters, Adobe didn't even own PM until version 5. And, this is the important part, they didn't change the Mac or Windows operating system that those early versions ran on. They didn't come to your office and buy new computers or throw away your disks.

At this point, your best hope is someone with CS6 still installed to open the PM6, P65 or PMD files you may have. Anything earlier is going to be one hell of a hunt for a Pagemaker user on the same platform those files were created on.

Notes:

1Currently developed by Harman International in collaboration with Adobe.

2Original version was discontinued in 2020. Other variants are currently developed by Harman and Zhongcheng in collaboration with Adobe.

The combination allowed for easier design of publications. Whereas page layout used to be a tedious task taking place on a pasteboard, desktop publishing allowed the process to be computerized: saving time, space, and money. Needless to say, desktop publishing took off and made the old, tedious process obsolete.

Comparing PageMaker to modern desktop publishing solutions (Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and even other alternatives like Microsoft Publisher and Scribus) you will find a lot of missing features and functions. Everything from effects, layer controls, gradients, and even advanced typography settings are absent from early versions of PageMaker 3 and 4. However, PageMaker still provides better controls and allows for more creativity than word processing software of the time (and even today.)

PageMaker was the program that launched desktop publishing as a popular function of computers in the 1980s. First released for the Mac, a PC version followed, and it remained under development until its discontinuation in the early 2000s. In the meantime, it had been acquired from its original publisher, Aldus, by Adobe.

Its file formats are many, across a number of versions, platforms, and international localizations, and the format is complicated and proprietary. Different versions have limited abilities to import/export other PageMaker file versions. Usually, between the three things that can vary (PageMaker version number, platform, and language version) you can only vary one at a time when converting files, so PageMaker 6.5 for Windows in English can convert files from PageMaker 5.0 for Windows in English or PageMaker 6.5 for the Mac in English or PageMaker 6.5 for Windows in French, but not PageMaker 5.0 for the Mac in German. A multi-stage transfer requiring several different versions is necessary to get files through such a multi-factor shift. The lack of further development by Adobe means that it is increasingly difficult to get the program to work on modern machines due to hardware and software changes since development ended.

File Format changed to a Microsoft Compound File in version 6 forward. Which is basically the previous format wrapped in the OLE container. Same identification method as versions 4 & 5. With version 6.5 & 7 you will see "32 06" or "06 32"

Aldus PageMaker, later Adobe PageMaker, is a desktop publishing program for Mac and Windows. First released in 1985, PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program for the Macintosh. It was followed over a year later with the release of 1.0 for the IBM PC. The PC version was a notable application as it was one of the few rare applications which would run under Windows 1.x. PC PageMaker 1.0 bundled a runtime version of Windows. This enabled MS-DOS users who had not decided to buy Windows to run PageMaker. Aldus skipped version 2.0 on the PC to bring version number in sync with the 3.0 Mac product.

After 7 versions and a sell-out to Adobe, PageMaker met its end at version 7.0 which would not have native support for Mac OS X and does not run properly on Windows Vista or beyond. It was replaced by a new product, Adobe InDesign.

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