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"That is a serious amount of work for a chart. Why not just convert it to CMYK or are you printing in spot colors?"

Yeah, and what if there are hundreds of pages and thousands of charts?
Just converting to CMYK leaves black (text) into all 4 process colors!
I record Photoshop action which proceses each color in their number to separate file. All they are saved each in its folder named by color, the file names are by page number. Then macro puts them into PM and colors.
Thus the document is small, it prints very fast and print file is extremely small. E.g. I print color books on B3 inkjet printer with continuous ink supply system designed by me. The print file of 912 B5 page two color book imposed on 330x550mm sheets has only 220Mb prn file for odd or even pages. The print file goes to printer in 10 seconds after a doubleclick. Then leaves computer almost idle and free for other work.

"Your workflow sounds terrible and a mess."
Trust me, it just sounds like mess. If you saw me at work you would see I perform seemingly tremendous work unbelievably quickly. Much faster then redesign. Photoshop automation and PM automation does the work. And with todays super fast computers you even do not have to wait hours to reporocess everything in case of mistake.

"Also keep in mind that Even PM will have problems on the new Windows machines."
Yes, sure.

* ** I installed first PageMaker 6.5 than 7.0 on OSX 10.5 CrossOver (a polished version of Wine ).
Both start and work very quickly. On 2GHz C2D Mac PM seems quicker than on 2.66@3.54GHz C2D XP. Version 7.0 complains about plugins of templates and pictures. Picture plugin cannot be removed - then PM7 do not start at all. It leaves it with one error message which can be bypassed with spacebar press.

I did not install them. Instead I copied installed PM folders from my Windows machine to Macintosh laptop into Aplications folder, chose run command in Crossover and pressed the save to programs menu button. Then pasted program icon found in Google into its alias and drag alias on to dock.
The friend seemed pretty happy. Especially since many of his old documents were designed in Windows PM.