yip@mcgill-vision.uucp (McGill/CONCAVE Group) (10/01/90)
I am currently working on mega-project composed in PageMaker 4.0. What I will be doing with the file has an air of programmability: I see that I could save enormous amounts of time if I could write a program that made the relatively regular changes (which BTW are too complex for MacroMaker) to each page. In order to do this, of course, I need to know how a PageMaker file is composed. The obvious questions are: 1. Does Aldus give out the file format information for files created by PageMaker? 2. If not, can it still be obtained from somewhere else? A related question: In the PC Norton Utilities, there is a program that lets you see the raw data of a file (text *and* format codes) on the screen, so that you can alter them right in front of you. Is there a similar utility for the Mac? -Rick Vitale.
vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) (10/01/90)
I don't know about PageMaker file formats. Perhaps you could contact Aldus and see. As to bytewise editing of files, there are a number of utilities available. MacTools (which is sold with MacTools Deluxe, and also still with Copy II Mac, I think), which is what I use, does a pretty good job, though it doesn't search. SUM II and Norton Utilities for the Mac both come with their own file editors, as well. I can't comment because I haven't seen either. In shareware/freeware areas, there is something called MacSnoop (available, I would imagine, from the usual sources) which is the best that I know of. Hope this helps. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Vincent Del Vecchio \ Disclaimer: Views expressed are not necessarily | | Box 4834 \ those of any person/group I am associated with. | | 5125 Margaret Morrison St.\ UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!andrew.cmu.edu!vd09 | | Pittsburgh, PA 15213 \ BITNET: vd09+%andrew@cmuccvma.bitnet | | (412) 268-4441 \ Internet: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+