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Re: Looking for to export a PageMaker 7 file to an AI file
Subject:Re: Looking for to export a PageMaker 7 file to an AI file From:foremangraphics -at- juno -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:33:33 -0700
Sharon & David -
I do have some experience with transferring PageMaker files to InDesign.
To be sure, I have only done this when working in the Windows 98 OS, but
the results were not wonderful. I finally only kept InDesign on my
computer because it could rescue me from hours of work when "98" crashed.
That way I didn't have to completely reedit or rewrite the articles that
were in a weekly newsletter that I do. I did, however, have to copy text
and paste back into a PM file. When opened in InDesign, the page layout
was always "strange." I was working with PM 6.5 and InDesign 1.2. Things
may have gotten better over time.
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:06:18 -0500 David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
writes:
>
> Sharon,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "the one thing object thing"--it must
> be
> a technical term with which I am not familiar!
>
> However, another route might be to import the Pagemaker file into
> InDesign, then to save it in the target format you want. I believe
> InDesign's handling of Pagemaker files is far superior to
> Pagemaker's
> export to .ei or .pdf.
>
> Illustrator and InDesign are very interactive, so you should be
> able
> to get the resulting file into Illustrator quite well.
>
> If you don't have InDesign, I have 2.02 (no CS, unfortunately) and
> can
> try to import and then to export to Illustrator for you if you
> wish.
>
> David
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