We had PageMaker files we needed to deal with recently and unfortunately the only thing we could figure out was pulling an archived version of PageMaker from the Internet Archive<https://archive.org/details/adobe-pagemaker-6.5> and loading it into a Windows 95 VirtualBox environment so that we could open up the files and export them as HTML. Definitely not ideal, and I needed to work with a developer in my department to set up the virtual environment because that was outside my knowledge. Also, there wasn't a way to automate it, as every file needed to be opened and exported manually, but it got the job done ultimately.

John
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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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker__;!!CGUSO5OYRnA7CQ!cKltjGJNj1RYQjnAIfWgkpe_yFM9-700vmS2X_guh6EvpaORWzK2XpTEvR7HnSmc-V9JgatqVajeN2fCskaCxd0$
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> (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.)
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> Deborah
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> The athletics department at my university has several files made with
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