As there are many people around the world who would be happy to continue using PM on modern machines, and most of them seem to find it impossible to install the program on 64 bit machines, would you care to explain how did you manage to install it?

I didn't do anything magical to install Pagemaker on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. I just installed it as I have always done. It works. Of course except for the printing issue. I don't know why Pagemaker expands the top and bottom margins. No matter what I set them to Pagemaker makes them bigger. This makes printing labels impossible. Other than that if you don't need accurate top and bottom margins it works fine.

Well, I've been gambling since May, 2009, and haven't missed a deadline yet!

It sure beats the heck out of InDesign CS3, which I'm also using for the

smaller newsletter.

I'm investigating it, but probably will do a complete re-install.

Notwithstanding all of the comments in this thread, I am having a problem with PM7.0.1 on Win 7 (64).  I could only install 7.0 in Safe Mode, and could only install the update to 7.0.1 in Safe Mode, too.  If I tried in normal mode, the installation would stall at the completion of the preparation for install.

Now I can't open any of the files that still open fine on XP SP3, in normal mode or Safe Mode.  I get the error:  "cannot open file: 8009:16404"

I've checked all of the suggested solutions, including copying the file, all to no avail.  Any suggestions?  I know it's an old program, but switching is not an option at this stage.  My only recourse is to dump Win 7 and install XP.

Cheers,

Allan

Another possibility is to get a second hand laptop tha

t runs on XP and keep it for working in PageMaker. It should cost you almost nothing, and it needs a negligible amount of storage space.

I have been using PageMaker 7.0.1a on a 64-bit Vista Ultimate Machine for 18

months now - with not a single problem.  My newsletters are 25+ pages long.

You may find samples at www.foothillsbsa.org - go to the newsletter section.

PageMaker converts to PDF files fine and they are much smaller than similar

documents compressed to PDF via InDesign CS3.  (My InDesign Newsletters may

be found at www.kennesawmountaintrailclub.org)

After seeing the comments regarding Windows 7, I installed my copy of

PageMaker 7.0.1 on my wife's 64-bit Windows 7 Professional machine.  I had

not one problem installing it and it opened the last file I created on the

Vista Ultimate machine.  I had no printing problems, other than the fact

that I hadn't installed all of the fonts I'm currently using on the Vista

Ultimate machine.

I prefer Windows 7 Professional, but right now I'd have to completely

reinstall all my software on my machine to upgrade to Windows 7.0 - it is a

"heftier" machine than my wife's because of all the photo editing I do.

Have a GREAT Day!

Fred

I've been using PM 7 with Vista 64 bit and have had absolutely no problems.
Since Dell went down the toilet, I bought an HP 64 bit Quad processor with 8 gigs of RAM.

I have a copy of Windows 7 sitting on the shelf, but since I am on a fixed income I can not afford the high cost of replacing my PM7 with InDesign.

I also have PM7 on my laptop which I bought 2 weeks before Win 7 came out. The free copy is also sitting on a shelf!

Therefore, I am sticking with my PM 7 and Vista Home Premium until everything dies.....including me!!!!!

Taking courage in hand to withstand the wrath of the 'experts', I'd like to report that like others I have successfully installed PageMaker v7.01a on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit notebook, and used it for several months.

The main problem I had was with Acrobat 7. As has been reported, there are no 64 bit printer drivers for this, so it will not integrate with PageMaker. However the Distiller continues to work fine. My solution has been to install the free PDF Creator, which installs its onw printer port, and then change the Document Setup to Compose to printer 'PDFCreator on pdfcmon'. I also found it necessary to set an alternative default PDF Reader to Acrobat to avoid PageMaker crashing on exit - I use PDF-XChange Viewer.

Of course, there remains the problem of placing later MS Office files. However, I can overcome this for Word2007 by saving as Word 6.0/95 - see Word 6.0/95 Not in "Save As Type" in Save As Dialog Box for details of how to do this. While this applies to earlier versions of Word, it works pretty much as described in 2007.

I note that despite all that is said in this forum, Adobe still has no qualms about selling PageMaker, and although the System requirements only lists up to Windows XP, it does not explicitly note that later Windows versions are not compatible.

Hopefully this will give those like me with only occasional need for PM for legacy documents the courage to give it a go...

Chris