Open PMD files in your browser
The publication of PageMaker, the app that started desktop publishing. Open one right here, every page, with no PageMaker. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your publication opens at its first page, its pages in a rail beside it.
- Every page • Text, pictures and shapes
- Sharp at any zoom • Drawn, not pictured
- Search • Every match counted and marked
- Export • Save as PDF, PNG or JPEG
About PMD
Aldus released PageMaker for the Mac in 1985, and with the LaserWriter it started desktop publishing. Adobe bought Aldus in 1994 and sold PageMaker until 2004, when InDesign took its place. PageMaker 6.5 saved .p65, PageMaker 6 .pm6 and PageMaker 7 .pmd.
A publication holds its pages and master pages, with text blocks, threaded stories, pictures, lines and shapes, in a Compound File of PageMaker's own records. Newsletters, flyers, church bulletins and school papers from those years are PageMaker files, and nothing Adobe still sells opens them.
Filepeek reads PageMaker 6 and 7 publications with libpagemaker, the open source reader LibreOffice uses, compiled to WebAssembly, and draws each page with its text, shapes and pictures, sharp at any zoom, its pages in a rail beside them. Search finds any word, and Export saves the pages as a PDF or as pictures.
PageMaker publication
.pmd • .p65 • .pm6
Format
- MIME type
- application/x-pagemaker
- Made by
- Aldus, then Adobe
- Released
- 1985
Inside the file
- Pages
- Text blocks, shapes and pictures
- Stories
- Text threaded from block to block
- Inside
- A Compound File of PageMaker's records
- Read here
- PageMaker 6 to 7
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens PageMaker 6 and 7 publications in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open PMD
- WindowsLibreOffice Draw opens it • Adobe ended PageMaker in 2004
- MacLibreOffice Draw opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
How do I open a PageMaker file without PageMaker?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a PMD. It opens at its first page, with every page in a rail beside it.
Does it open older PageMaker files?
Files from PageMaker 6, 6.5 and 7 open. Older ones, from PageMaker 5 and before, use a format libpagemaker doesn't read.
Can I save it as a PDF?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PDF, and every page goes on a page of its own. Save as PNG or JPEG saves pages as pictures.
Does it open MikuMikuDance's .pmd models?
Yes. MikuMikuDance's first models are .pmd files too, and Filepeek tells them apart by their first bytes: a model opens in 3D with its textures and the VMD motions dropped with it, like a PMX.