What is a .PMD file?
PMD is an Adobe PageMaker layout, a pioneer of desktop publishing.
- Did you know
- PageMaker helped start the desktop-publishing revolution in the mid-1980s.
- PageMaker was written by the Seattle start-up Aldus, founded by Paul Brainerd, and is credited with coining the term “desktop publishing”.
- It leaned on Adobe’s PostScript and the Apple LaserWriter to put professional typesetting on ordinary desks.
- What Analyser reads
- Open documents, ebooks and publishing files beyond Office: comic books (CBZ/CBT with ComicInfo + first-page preview; CBR/CB7 identified), Microsoft XPS, FictionBook FB3, iBooks, Scrivener, Visio VSDX, R Markdown/Quarto, RTFD, WARC/MAFF web archives, TeX DVI, legacy Hangul HWP, and WordPerfect/QuarkXPress/PageMaker identification.
- Depth of analysis
- .PMD is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .PMD file
- Drag a .PMD file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.