I also feel your pain, but I see no point in carping about Adobe, especially since they gave PM users ways to convert their old files to ID for many years after it was terminated. Even Quark can't open some of their legacy files, so the situation here is not unique. Ready Set Go!?? Good luck!! What I would have loved to see, as it would have elimiated 90% of the angry messages here, is if Adobe had created a small utility program that converts old PM code into ID code... essentially doing what they did many years ago to allow PM 1.0-4.0 files to be opened by PM 6.5. They took old PM4.2 code and stripped out all the code except for the ability to open old files and resave them as 4.2 files, which 6.5-7.0 could then open. They also offered it for free to people that needed it. The issue I see with the current CC verisons, is now that the software is required to be 64-bit, the old code to open PM in CS6 is no longer compliant in that respect and would have to be reenginnered to work now. Adobe rightly saw so little need for that, why waste the resources on it. Even Markzware, who offered conversion plugins in the past stopped developing ones for PM. But maybe it's time to revist that thought. Maybe take old CS6 code, drop out everything except the conversion code, and offer taht up to those that can still run it in a 32-bit world.
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