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Without speaking to the possibility of using a ?demo version of PageMaker as
a "free" viewer, there is no free or other viewer for PageMaker and, in a
related thought, FrameViewer, for FrameMaker, does not work with PageMaker
and also is not free.
If you want to make PageMaker files viewable by others who do not have the
program, you can create an Adobe Acrobat PDF from your PageMaker file. Adobe
Acrobat, the viewer for PDFs, is free.
Best regards,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Stockman [SMTP:stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com]
> >Is there a PageMaker viewer for non-PageMaker users?
> >A contact of mine, defending the posting of a "for general use"
> >PageMaker file on their web site, said there was one.
>
> There's no free reader for PageMaker that I know of; your friend may have
> been thinking of FrameMaker, which has a free (?) FrameViewer.
>
> However, for PageMaker, I'd suggest generating Adobe Acrobat PDFs out of
> the files, and posting those for anyone to read with the free Acrobat
> Reader.
