I'm sorry but you're trying to fit a round peg in square hole.

PAGEMAKER 6.0 and earlier are no longer supported at all.

PAGEMAKER 6.5x IS NOT SUPPORTED ON WINDOWS XP

This is what Adobe says:
PageMaker 6.5x, however, may not meet your expectations in Windows XP, since it was released prior to Windows XP and was not developed for this operating system. Adobe Technical Support provides assistance with using PageMaker 6.5x features in Windows XP and with troubleshooting issues that also occur in Windows 2000, NT with Service Pack 5 or 6, ME, 98, or 95.
(As Microsoft now only offer paid support and free critical security updates for Windows 98 until 30th June '06, I suspect support from Adobe for PM6.5x and PM7.x on this platform may also diminish.)

Click here to read Adobe's Support Policy for PageMaker 6.5 and 7.x in Windows XP, from where the above quote was extracted.

So no hope for Windows7.   Upgrade to InDesign while there are discounts for PM Licence holders.

Iechyd da! John
20:27 09/11/2009 GMT

Did you read the message immediately before yours? Or any of the previous threads on the subject?

BobLevine wrote:

 

That was a rhetorical question, right, Claudio?

 

Bob

Well, not completely, Bob. It certainly looks odd to me to ask a question immediately below its answer.

Whenever someone asks about pagemaker on windows 7, they are almost guaranteed to be retired, or working for a church.

Jay

Despite Adobe's warning, PM v6.5 works just fine on XP. It won't install in Win7 as such, but

if you have Win7 Professional or Ultimate, you can install XP Mode and PM v6.5 (and presumably v7.0)

will run in that. You can download XP Mode at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

If you have a Home edition of Win7, you'll have to decide whether you prefer to upgrade Win7 or upgrade from PM to another desktop publishing app.

BTW, I'm neither retired nor at a church, though I run PM 6.5. My reason is that I use it primarily to maintain the documentation manual for software that we sell; I'm a software developer, not a graphic designer, and don't want to spend the time and money to learn a completely new app. PM (which I've had since v3) meets my needs, and I don't want to be forced off it.

I am also retired and volunteering for an environmental group.  I have Pagemaker 6.5 installed and running under XP Pro.  I believe I got there just by copying the whole folder from the Windows 98 computer.  Seems as long as you have the resource files in the same folder it runs fine.  I'll let you know if the same technique works in Windows 7 if I ever upgrade.

The real question is what happens when it come to printing/pdf creation.
Jay

Best of luck! Remember to back up your PM files very frequently for when PM goes belly up.

Are you expecting for someone to tell you how to reinstall it? Unfortunately, none of those claiming that they successfully and faultessly run PM in Win7 has ever explained how s/ he managed to install it in the first place.

PageMaker 6.5 can be installed on Windows 7, but it is next to impossible

and will never work right again.

Go get yourself a copy of PageMaker 7.0. It is PM6.5 made to run on Windows

7.0.

I have no sympathy for Adobe killing a great product, so get PM7 wherever

you can find it (can you say Pirate Bay?).

No need to post the same message twice, most of us can understand the first time.

I always understood that PM 7 had only minor differences with 6.5, and I am reasonably sure that it came out by the time of Win 2000, and certainly long before Win 7.

WordStar was also a great product at its time. Do you still use it?

Not True.

I am running PM7.0 using Windows 7.0 Pro (64 bit).

I am running PM7.0 using Windows 7.0 Pro (64 bit).

Yes, but can you run Adobe Table?

But seriously if you can come up with a repeatable way to run Pagemaker on win 7, with complete functionality, including reliable pdf export let us know.

Jay

Bob, my point is that there would be many people, especially in developing countries, that would be most grateful if they were shown a reliable, repeatable way of installing and running faultessly PM in the newer OSs. We all know that there will always be some participants who keep on claiming that it can be done because they have done so, but I have yet to see a single one of them explaining how to achive this reliably and repeatably. And I also have yet to see one stating firmly and clearly that everything in PM works faultessly for him/her, without even a single minor glitch.

Bob, it seems that, as I grow older, my irony is getting so subtle that only I can see it. My criticism wasn't directed to you, but to those who claim that PM works without a hitch for them... except that they later have questions like my dictionaries aren't working properly, I am having trouble when exporting to PDF, I cannot ...