LibreOffice opens a LOT of old file formats that nothing else current does.  I found that it would open MS Word .doc files from a early '90s Mac that "modern" (10 years ago) Word just barfed on.  Similar issue with WordPerfect files too.

Erich


On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 18:34, Deborah Fitchett eloquently inscribed:

> Wikipedia suggests you could try LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker
> 
> (This inspired me to look up what might deal with my old AppleWorks files,
> and the answer seems to be the same. Mostly I've been opening in a plain
> text editor then deleting any blocks of formatting gibberish - but then my
> files have very little of that, this wouldn't work well at all for something
> involving lots of layout.)
> 
> Deborah
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> PageMaker 6.5 (extension = .p65) file
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> 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?
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