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Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever reverse-engineered the PageMaker file formats?
by bovermyer 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever reverse-engineered the PageMaker file formats?
- rcarmo 6y agoI don't think so. I recently had a very similar problem to solve (converting old PM4 files from my college years) and had to dig around for a way to run it. I ended up using a mixture of DOSBox and Windows For Legacy PCs under Parallels: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/10/24/2100 https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/10/24/2100
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoNot sure on this particular format but apparently the majority of file formats on those older now dead programs were basically just raw dumps of data structures in memory and not actually something well defined like the xml/json files we have today. Makes reverse engineering them pretty difficult when you have to work out how the original software was laid out.