LO 4.4 is supposed to import Pagemaker files? How?

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#1

I was all excited by the recent announcement that LO can open a number of older Mac file formats and Pagemaker files. I am running the Mac 64 bit version of LO 4.4. (OSX 10.9.5)

So I wanted to finally convert a number of older Pagemaker 6.5 files to something useable.

I searched the docs and searched this list to find instructions of converting these files. All I can find is that you should "import" the Pagemaker files.

There is no "import" command that I can find. Where is this?

I tried to open the Pagemaker 6.5 files directly but get "General Error. General Input / Output error".

So how are you supposed to open Pagemaker files?

Please not that I'm on digest. If you wouldn't mind cc'ing me directly when / if you reply to the list.

Thanks in advance,
B.

#2

Open such file with LibreOffice exactly like you would open any other
file with any other program.

#3

Hello Andreas,

I tried to open the Pagemaker 6.5 files directly but get "General
Error. General Input / Output error".

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Open such file with LibreOffice exactly like you would open any other
file with any other program.

Unless I've misunderstood what bunk3m wrote, that resulted in a General
I/O error.

#4

Ooops. Then LibreOffice can not open that file because the file is not a
pagemaker file, a corrupted pagemaker file or an unsupported pagemaker file.

Try http://www.zamzar.com or find some machine with pagemaker up and
running and let it export your files to whatever suitable.

#5

Thank you everyone for suggestions. I apologize for the delay in testing and replying.

I tried www.zamzar.com but Pagemaker 6.5 files can't be converted using this service. I am pretty sure this was close to the last version available on the Mac platform.

Where do I find the documentation of which versions of Pagemaker should work with LO? I don't remember reading which versions were designed to work in the docs but it quite likely that I didn't find the right URL.

Since these files are quite old, it is possible that the files are corrupted. I've had them inside a zip archive and tried new unarchived versions with the same result.

I did receive an email from someone regarding submitting the file for bug testing. I seem to have misplaced that email so would you mind sending me the link again? Thanks and apologies.

B.

PS On digest mode.

#6

Thank you everyone for suggestions. I apologize for the delay in testing
and replying.

I tried www.zamzar.com but Pagemaker 6.5 files can't be converted using this
service. I am pretty sure this was close to the last version available on
the Mac platform.

Where do I find the documentation of which versions of Pagemaker should work
with LO? I don't remember reading which versions were designed to work in
the docs but it quite likely that I didn't find the right URL.

The guys from Document Libertaion Project should have the answer.

http://www.documentliberation.org/contact/

#7

Quoting "Daniel A. Rodriguez" <daniel.armando.rodriguez@gmail.com>:

Thank you everyone for suggestions. I apologize for the delay in testing
and replying.

I tried www.zamzar.com but Pagemaker 6.5 files can't be converted using this
service. I am pretty sure this was close to the last version available on
the Mac platform.

Where do I find the documentation of which versions of Pagemaker should work
with LO? I don't remember reading which versions were designed to work in
the docs but it quite likely that I didn't find the right URL.

"During 2014, members of the project released a new framework library, called librevenge, which contains all the document interfaces and helper types, in order to simplify the dependency chain. In addition, they started a new library for importing Adobe PageMaker documents, libpagemaker, written as part of Google Summer of Code 2014 by Anurag Kanungo."

attributed to italovignoli

Dave

The guys from Document Libertaion Project should have the answer.

http://www.documentliberation.org/contact/

d