Pagemaker 7.0 Error

Yes -- ho ho ho - I'm still using PM....

I've been using 7.0 for some time with no problem. Now today, when I start the program, I get this error message, and when I hit "continue" the program clears and does not start.

Anyone have a thought as to how to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance! Merry Christmas.

Claude

ERROR MESSAGE:

Plug-in error.

Plug-in cannot be completed.
Some system error failed.
[7212]
[5904]

9001:7224

In article <8Y2cj.43250$>, "Claude Balls" wrote:

Yes -- ho ho ho - I'm still using PM....

I've been using 7.0 for some time with no problem. Now today, when I start the program, I get this error message, and when I hit "continue" the program clears and does not start.

Anyone have a thought as to how to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance! Merry Christmas.

Claude

ERROR MESSAGE:

Plug-in error.

Plug-in cannot be completed.
Some system error failed.
[7212]
[5904]

9001:7224

One of the plug-ins may have become corrupted.

Try moving the Plug-in folder out of the PageMaker folder. If PageMaker then runs you can quit PageMaker and put the plug-in folder back, but take out all the files. Then slowly put back each plug-in one at a time restarting PageMaker until you find the one causing the problem - delete that plug-in.

If that doesn't work you can try re-installing PageMaker and that wil replace all the files with fresh versions from the install CD.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Thanks, Harry. I'll give it a try. Simple question - what do the plug-ins do?

Claude

"Helpful Harry" wrote in message

In article <8Y2cj.43250$>, "Claude Balls" wrote:

Yes -- ho ho ho - I'm still using PM....

I've been using 7.0 for some time with no problem. Now today, when

I

start the program, I get this error message, and when I hit

"continue"

the program clears and does not start.

Anyone have a thought as to how to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance! Merry Christmas.

Claude

ERROR MESSAGE:

Plug-in error.

Plug-in cannot be completed.
Some system error failed.
[7212]
[5904]

9001:7224

One of the plug-ins may have become corrupted.

Try moving the Plug-in folder out of the PageMaker folder. If

PageMaker

then runs you can quit PageMaker and put the plug-in folder back, but take out all the files. Then slowly put back each plug-in one at a

time

restarting PageMaker until you find the one causing the problem - delete that plug-in.

If that doesn't work you can try re-installing PageMaker and that wil replace all the files with fresh versions from the install CD.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships

;o)

In article <xQ2dj.99856$>, "Claude Balls" wrote:

Thanks, Harry. I'll give it a try. Simple question - what do the plug-ins do?

As in many other applications, PageMaker's plug-ins add functions to make things easier or automate complicated tasks. PageMaker comes with some and you can download more ... but many of them are fairly useless to most users.

PageMaker's plug-ins are found in the Utilities -> Plug-ins menu.

Some of the perhaps more useful ones to an average user are:

Drop Cap Creates a drop cap - a larger letter that spans multiple lines of text

Change Case Changes the case (upper case, lower case, etc.) of the selected text.

Word Counter Counts the words in the selected text.

Keyline Adds a border around the selected object with user defineable style / thickness,
colour and distance from the object.

Build Booklet Takes a document with a series of A5 pages (for example) and creates a new document
with A4 sized spreads - when printed
double-sided, sorted and folded / stapled
you end up with a booklet with the pages
in the same reading order as they were in
the A5 sized document.

Personally I've only ever bothered with the last two of those.

As well as Plug-ins there are Scripts, but these tend to be even more "useless" (or perhaps the word is "specialised for a particular use"). These are seen and run via a palatte window you can display from Window -> Plug-in Palattes -> Show Scripts. Other than a cursory "play", I've never wasted time with any of these.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Thanks again, Harry. I'll take a look at the plug-ins -- some look like I could use them.

Too bad the program is not being taught at the night schools anymore. I also have InDesign that I needed for one job a couple of years ago. I'm sure it's "far superior" to Pagemaker, but for my purposes it is an over-kill -- way too complicated. I'll just stick to this one.

Claude

"Helpful Harry" wrote in message

In article <xQ2dj.99856$>, "Claude Balls" wrote:

Thanks, Harry. I'll give it a try. Simple question - what do the plug-ins do?

As in many other applications, PageMaker's plug-ins add functions to make things easier or automate complicated tasks. PageMaker comes with some and you can download more ... but many of them are fairly useless to most users.

PageMaker's plug-ins are found in the Utilities -> Plug-ins menu.
Some of the perhaps more useful ones to an average user are:
Drop Cap Creates a drop cap - a larger letter that spans multiple lines of text

Change Case Changes the case (upper case, lower case, etc.) of the selected text.

Word Counter Counts the words in the selected text.

Keyline Adds a border around the selected object with user defineable style / thickness,
colour and distance from the object.

Build Booklet Takes a document with a series of A5 pages (for example) and creates a new document
with A4 sized spreads - when printed
double-sided, sorted and folded / stapled
you end up with a booklet with the pages
in the same reading order as they were in
the A5 sized document.

Personally I've only ever bothered with the last two of those.
As well as Plug-ins there are Scripts, but these tend to be even more "useless" (or perhaps the word is "specialised for a particular use"). These are seen and run via a palatte window you can display from

Window

-> Plug-in Palattes -> Show Scripts. Other than a cursory "play", I've never wasted time with any of these.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships

;o)