Convert Pagemaker To Pdf

[Olympia Brackin]

InDesign can convert document and template files from QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.1x. InDesign can also convert document and template files from multi-language QuarkXPress Passport 4.1x files, so there is no longer any need to save these files as single-language files first. (To convert documents created with QuarkXPress 5.0 or later, reopen the documents in QuarkXPress and save them in 4.0 format.)

InDesign does not support OLE or Quark XTensions. Consequently, when you open files that contain OLE or Quark XTensions graphics, those graphics will not appear in the InDesign document. If your QuarkXPress document does not convert, check the original and remove any objects that were created by an XTension; then save, and try to convert again.

Multi-ink colors from QuarkXPress are mappedto mixed inks in InDesign, unless the multi-ink color does not containat least one spot color. In this case, the multi-ink color is convertedto a process color instead.

InDesigncan convert document and template files from Adobe PageMaker6.0 and later. When you open a PageMaker file, InDesign convertsthe original file information to native InDesign information. InDesignfiles are saved with an .indd filename extension.

If the PageMaker file or its linked graphics are locatedon a network server, floppy disk, or removable drive, it may notopen as expected if an interruption in data transfer occurs. Toprevent data transfer problems, copy documents and their links tothe hard disk, preferably in the same folder where the PageMakerpublication is stored, before opening them in InDesign.

All parent pages and layers are converted to InDesign parents and layers. Parent pages in PageMaker convert to parent pages in InDesign and retain all objects including page numbering and guides. To maintain the order of overlapping items, InDesign creates two layers when converting a PageMaker publication: Default and parent Default. parent Default contains the Parent page items.

Styles are converted to InDesign styles. The [No style] inPageMaker is the equivalent of [No Paragraph Style] in InDesign.However, [No Paragraph Style] picks up the attributes of a namedstyle if that style was selected before any typing occurred in thePageMaker publication.

InDesign uses the Adobe Paragraph Composer for all paragraphs,causing some text to reflow. You can assign the Adobe Single-LineComposer to one or more paragraphs to create line breaks more similarlyto the PageMaker composition engine, but text may still reflow.

The First Baseline of converted text may appear differentthan text created in InDesign. The First Baseline of converted textis set to Leading, but the First Baseline of text created in InDesignis set to Ascent by default.

When Auto-Overprint Black Strokes or Fills (or both) is selectedin the Trapping Preferences dialog box in PageMaker, the settingcarries over to InDesign, but Overprint Stroke or Overprint Fillis deselected in the Attributes panel.

I've come across some really old Adobe Pagemaker documents (from 1997 to 2000) that I'd love to be able to open, and update. Everything that I've found on the internet suggest that I have to download and use Adobe InDesign, to open and convert these documents. I'd rather not install any Adobe software on my computer if I can help it, as it's evil, like Google. Is there any way to do this conversion with Publisher? Or, does anyone know of a conversion tool that they can suggest?

@walt.farrellThanks. I'd already tried it, as well as Adobe's online suite of tools, and none of them can open the documents, including the old Microsoft Word 6 or PDF documents that I created way back when. It may very well be a lost cause.

I have always been able to open PageMaker files in Indesign with absolutely no problem and then this occurred completely out of the blue.Any ideas? I've delete prefs, updated to the brand new 2.02 patch and still no change.

Up until 2.0.2 I had no problem opening PM 7 files - now they simply won't open, and I don't even get a messsage, just the spinning beach ball of death. There doesn't seem to be a solution: my workaround has been to instal InD up to 2.0.1 on another machine, boot it as target disk and use 2.0.1 to open the files I want to convert, saving them onto my work machine so that I can open them from 2.0.1 into 2.0.2. Its hardly satisfactory.

My problem pre-dates the 2.02 update. I installed the update in hopes that it would alleviate the problem.I continue to receive messages saying the plug-in in missing or corrupt or the format may not be supported; the only time I get no message is if I drag the PM file (6.5 or 7) to the ID icon in the dock.

I know this is an extreme solution, but you should try trashing the ID preferences and then, if you still can't open the PM files, removing all traces of ID and reinstalling the program. I suspect that one of ID's necessary files is corrupted.

Do you have trouble converting even a newly created PageMaker file, with not much in it? This would indicated some systemic problem, as opposed to some corruption in the PageMaker file.If you can't convert even a new, fairly simple PageMaker file, you could e-mail the PM file to me and see if I can open it. Let me know, and I'll give you my e-mail address.Don

Have you tried reopening the PageMaker file In PageMaker and doing a Save As? Or running the Diagnostic Recompose on it (in case corruption in the recalcitrant PageMaker document is causing the problem)?Don

(1) "save-as" the file with a new name and with a ".pm" extension - and preferably on your own local computer;(2) with InDesign closed, trash its "Defaults" and "Saved Data" files from your Users>Library>InDesign>Preferences folder location (I might have that order messed up but you'll find them);(3) open ID again and then locate and open the afore-mentioned PageMaker file.It worked for me!

Under 10.1.5 on a G4-400, ID 2.0.2 crashed everytime trying to open up the PM file. I did the diagnostic recompose, downsaved it to 6.5, did save as, etc. with no luck. Crash - crash - crash.On a whim, I went to another machine (a PowerComputing clone running 9.1) and tried to open up the same file - success!

After installing vMac with system 7, and finding suitable programs for importing, exporting I was ready. Ready to convert. But, PageMaker 4.2 could not open the files. I did not know about how terrible system 7 handles filemeta data information, so that led me to believe that the files were corrupted (Later I learnt they probably only had the wrong Creator Type). I did, after some search, find another source for the same files, that came straight from a mac disk image, and with more of the file metadata correct. Now, I could finally read some of them. After some more research I found the program Creator Changer. There I could finally identify that the files were created by ALD4 and ALD2, that is, PageMaker 2 and 4 formats. Great! Off to find PageMaker 3 (to be able to open the PageMaker 2 files in version 4 by converting them in PageMaker 3). Now, Why did I want to open even the old files in PageMaker 4.x you might ask. Because PageMaker 4 was the first version that gave me the possibility to also also print as postscript.

I want to apologize first because I do not have all the details and this issue was thrust into my lap just a few hours ago. Our Quality department have a lot of Pagemaker 5 files that need to be converted to InDesign, I am not sure what version. I was told to figure it out.

You have a complicated path here. Not only do you need to convert from PM to ID, you have to FIRST convert the older PM5 files up to at least PM6.5 so that InDesign CS6 can handle them (CS6 being the last version that could do this conversion and which is not available anyway, so you have another problem facing you).

That being said, It will take far less time to massage these files after conversion than having to rebuild things from scratch, so I guess it's up to your Quality Department to think strongly about what they want to gain out of this, and are these files worth the time involved, especially if you need to pay someone to do it.

A) You need all the links (pictures and graphics) supplied as separate files. Many people "back in the day" unknowingly embedded these files (as that's how Pagemaker worked originally, until later versions were able to simply "Link" those files), but. InDesign won't have a good time with those. And even if they WERE linked, but are now unavailable, you're toast anyway. Many of those linked files may need to be upgraded as well to work in the ID world.

C) Layouts will change and need some (or a LOT of) reworking to get back in line, as the way these programs work under the hood are very different. If the file is simple, this may not take much time at all, but if you have a larger complicated file it will take some time. Even converting from PM5 to PM7(or PM6.5) saw text reflow because the methods for text composition got better as PM developed, so things like spacing and kerning changed.

A few months ago, a client secured me to convert a batch of several legacy files from the '90s. These were published books that were needed again for reprinting these many years later, none of which had PDFs (since that wasn't a print workflow in those days), and many of which they didn't even have hard copies of anymore. It took many hours, but it was done! (To be honest, I kinda enjoyed the challenge of it)

Yeah...I'm guessing the OP has already found out that there is no magic button to push here. Back in the day, when I moved from PM to InDesign (I tried 1.0 but moved at 1.5) the conversions were less than wonderful. I suspect smaller documents will be easier to recreate from scratch.

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