IF you can get ahold of a copy of InDesign CS6, it can load the files and convert them to indesign format.  however, versions above cs 6 have issues, from what I've seen.



Bruce Orcutt
UTSA Libraries: Systems
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> On Sep 26, 2024, at 3:56 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Code4Lib,
>
> The athletics department at my university has several files made with
> PageMaker 6.5 (extension = .p65).  Does anyone know of currently-available
> software that would open these?

I don't know for sure, but after Adobe bought PageMaker, they replaced it with InDesign, so it's quite likely that they had some ability for InDesign to read the files from the software they deprecated.

-Joe

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