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Is not it possible to run Windows Pagemaker in Mactel OS X Wine?
You see my friend who designs books from time to time wants to return to Pagemaker from InDesign. He uses Leo.

I started to use Pagemaker 4 in 1996 on Mac LC III. Since 1998 I use Pagemaker 6< on Windows. I prefer Pagemaker over Quark, because I have learned how to script PageMaker directly and through DDE and its ability to color and preview transparent monochrome bitmaps.

E.g. I have wrote several small <50 line scripts which do impose me a book or magazine which ever way I want to in a few seconds.

For example if somebody asks me to prepare for a prepress a book designed in Ms Word :-P, whith lots of color charts I do not redesign it. Instead I make a PDF, then separate colors in Photoshop, save each pure color like Red, Green, Pink and Black in the number they are present in document in its own monochrom bitmap, place tiffs in Pagemaker, color them in their respective colors and impose.

I have even wrote a script which automates also a footnotesin PM6< - the script searches for all specially colored footnote characters on some page, finds corresponding footnote among others in footnotes story, measures the length of footnote(s) in lines, counts the lines available on page, shrinks the text block, puts part or whole footnote(s) in a free space and formats them - first with line above, others without. If footnote does not fit, puts part of it on the next page with other footnotes if present.