Open a PageMaker file as a Word file and a PDF, without PageMaker

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No sound. The captions say what is happening.

A PageMaker publication (.pmd) from PageMaker 6.5 or 7. You do not need PageMaker or its fonts on your computer.
Text typed in one of the old Indian fonts listed below, or in English.

1.Open the PageMaker to Word (DOCX) page.
2.Leave Which script is this document in? on Detect automatically. Choose the script yourself only if the page asks you to.
3.Click the upload box (Drop files or folders here) and choose your .pmd file.
4.Click Convert to Word.
5.Download the DOCX. The PDF beside it shows the same pages and is useful for checking.

Checked

Converts, less checked

Not supported yet

Languages (11): Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Odia, Punjabi

What this tool does not do yet

Master-page items, such as running heads and page numbers, are not carried over.
Colour, rotated items and text wrapped around a picture are not carried over.
Line breaks: in the Word file most lines break where PageMaker broke them, and some take a word more or less. The PDF keeps every line.

Files up to 25 MB. Your file and the result are deleted within 4 hours. No sign-up.

The page says no table reads the font.

The publication is typed in a font we have no table for yet. The box above lists the fonts that convert.

The page asks me to choose the script.

The file is too short for the font to be recognised. Choose the script under Which script is this document in? and convert again.

Page numbers and running heads are missing.

Items on PageMaker’s master pages are not carried over yet. Add them again in Word.

A line breaks at a different word than in PageMaker.

Word wraps each paragraph itself in a Unicode font. Most lines break where PageMaker broke them; the PDF keeps every line exactly.