Convert old Adobe Pagemaker Docs

[Outdoorslover]

I've come across some really old Adobe Pagemaker documents (from 1997 to 2000) that I'd love to be able to open, and update. Everything that I've found on the internet suggest that I have to download and use Adobe InDesign, to open and convert these documents. I'd rather not install any Adobe software on my computer if I can help it, as it's evil, like Google. Is there any way to do this conversion with Publisher? Or, does anyone know of a conversion tool that they can suggest?

 

Cheers!

[walt.farrell]

Possibly something like https://www.aconvert.com/pdf/pmd-to-pdf/ would help.

[Outdoorslover]

@walt.farrellThanks. I'd already tried it, as well as Adobe's online suite of tools, and none of them can open the documents, including the old Microsoft Word 6 or PDF documents that I created way back when. It may very well be a lost cause.

[firstdefence]

I have a guy I help out and he still uses Adobe Pagemaker 7, I could always ask to use it to export to PDF.

[RM f/g]

Outdoorslover

My InDesign CS6 opens Pagemaker documents. With the help of Peter Kahrels Batch Convert script I can convert a bunch of Pagemaker files to IDML in one go.

These IDML files can than be openend in Publisher.

If I can help you out with that, just let me know.