Pagemaker 3

[ANdrew James]

I have an old PC running windows 2.03 and would like pagemaker 3 to access some work i did years ago. any ideas?

[locustfurnace]

you mostly likey can still access the old pagemaker files with a newer version.
I am unaware of Adobe releases trial version of pagemaker.
I'll have to look into it
check here for a converter;
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/det...l.jsp?ftpID=404 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=404)

[Andrew James]

That's useful. I'll keep looking for a copy of pagemaker 3. I think a school will probably have a copy in an old dusty cupboard somewhere - finding someone who's willing to look in those cupboards is harder!
Thank you again
Andrew

[locustfurnace]

while looking around, I seen something which made me have to ask
is the Pagemaker 3,.. Adobe or Aldus?

and I did not ask this before, but this program does run on Win 2.0?
If you still have the Win2.0 disks, you could set up it so it can run on your more modern systems, via Bochs - it is an emulator for x86 systems.
I have sucessfully installed and run Win1.0, Win2.0, Win3.0 on Bochs.

[ANdrew James]

It's aldus pagemaker - big with amc and pc users. I hadn't heard of bochs before - that sounds useful. Thanks

[locustfurnace]

if you can use PERL, there is a conversion script you can try, PageMaker to LaTeX conversion. http://www.lightandmatter.com/pmtolatex/pmtolatex.html
then you might be able to use a Latex to html converter
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/...latex2html.html (http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html)
PM2html - PageMaker to HTML conversion is provided in a compressed format.
http://www.w3.org/Tools/PM2html.html

bochs
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
"Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU. Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, Windows® 95, DOS, and recently Windows® NT 4.