Rosetta in 1.6.8. - fails to install/launch/is it even there?

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Rosetta in 1.6.8. - fails to install/launch/is it even there?

I just did a clean install of Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro 1,1. During the install I opted to install additional software - Rosetta.

So now I try to run a PowerPC application - PageMager6.5 - and no Rosetta comes into action. I have never used it before, so I'm not even sure how it's supposed to work but I read around the internet that it's supposed to run automatically for PPC applications.

I figured - maybe it didn't install. Inserted the OSX installation disk once more and installed optional software - Rosetta. It said the installation was successful. And - nothing.

There's no program called "Rosetta" in the Applications folder, and if I try to open a PPC file, Finder is clueless and wants me to specify an application to open it with.

What's the catch? What am I doing wrong?

The installation disk is Mac OSX 1.6.3. retail - MC573Z/A, if that means anything.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Mac Pro 1,1 xeon 2.66x2 quadcore

Posted on Jun 12, 2013 6:15 PM

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MichelPM

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Jun 12, 2013 7:12 PM in response to tanit

Not every PowerPC app in existance will run under Rosetta.

Unfortunately, Adobe PageMaker 7.0 and lower are not compatible under Rosetta in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

There was once an Adobe upgrade from PageMaker to Adobe InDesign CS however, that was a loooong time ago and no longer available.

If you search for free download Adobe CS2 suite of apps, you'll find that Adobe has offered a download area with appropriate registration codes to be able to run all of the Adobe CS2 apps, if the search links are still active.

CS2 should run with very few glitches under Rosetta.

Found the link here

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/

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tanit Author

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Jun 12, 2013 7:34 PM in response to MichelPM

Ohh.... so THAT'S the case! I didn't know.

The problem is that, if I recall well (it was a while ago when I last dealt with these), only pagemaker 6.5 or 7 would open in CS.

My dad has some ancient disks with pagemaker 5.5 files, so he's kept a copy of pakegmaker 6.5 on his old G5 in order to occasionally be able to open those files, save as 6.5. and then import to indesign. I thought I could enable him to do it on an intel mac too but no luck.

Guess he's gonna have to keep the G5 for those, eh. 😀

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MichelPM

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Jun 12, 2013 8:00 PM in response to tanit

If you can get CS2 working on your Intel iMac, InDesign should be able to just open those PageMaker 6.5 documents without any additonal conversion.

If you make copies of all of the native PageMaker 6.5 files, once you get a working copy of InDesign you can either use the Open command to open the PageMaker files in inDesign or use InDesign's import feature to import the PageMaker documents into InDesign.

In order to have a seamless experience opening these files in a different Adobe page layout app, you need to make sure you have all of the available Fonts across both conputers.

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