

Run the PageMaker "slideshow" by pressing Shift + "Go to page" from the Layout menu (PageMaker 5.0x) or from the Page menu (PageMaker 4.x). To attempt to recover a damaged publication, do one or more of the following:Ī.

When an Adobe PageMaker publication is damaged, it generates an error or exhibits unexpected or unpredictable behaviour. If you can open it in a small window use CTL-G to go to another page and then try to expand the windows size and then follow the instructions from this document: This is in case the problem is a damaged graphic on the page it is trying to open to. The only thing I can think of to fix a document that you cannot open before getting an error message is to try to minimize the PM window as much as possible (so only the menu bar shows) before opening. Each time you open the original you take the chance of it becoming permanently broken - never to open again! If you can still open those files, do a Save As to a new name in a new directory and don't play with the originals again. If there's any corruption to the indexing or any record, the whole file can be corrupted. The same structure is found in most page layout applications.

in fact they're much more like a complex relational database file. PageMaker's documents are not word processor files. This is even more in-depth than the FAQ I worte and posted here (check the FAQs section) and should lead you in the right direction. Following is a FAQ written by an acquaintance of mine that will tell you more than you ever needed to know.
