Format
PageMaker PC Document
Summary
- Name
- PageMaker PC Document
- Version
- 5.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.pagemaker
- PUID: x-fmt/173
- Format type
- Word Processor
- Description
- PageMaker is a discontinued desktop publishing program created by Aldus Corporation in 1985. Originally created for Macintosh computers the PC version was released in 1987. It was purchased alongside other Aldus software such as FreeHand in 1994. File extensions begin with either pm or pt, for the PageMaker file or for PageMaker template, followed by the version number.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
pm5,pt5 - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
Relationships
- Equivalent to
- Is previous version of
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
PageMaker PC Document Version 5
- Description
- BOF; Offset: 6; Magic Bytes: FF99 followed by 4D500005 100 bytes after..
- Provenance
- 11/2023 (v.115)- Max-offset modified for BOF signature to allow for more exact signature identification. Internally researched
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 6
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
FF99{100}4D500005- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V105
- Release date
- 29 June 2022
-
Added signature
PageMaker PC Document (5.0): Signature researched and samples provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
-
Updated
PageMaker PC Document (5.0): Updated description, mime type, updated title to refer to only PC files and extension of pt5 included. Submitted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.