Serif PagePlus

From Just Solve the File Format Problem
(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(Oops, didn't mean to do that; clicked on the wrong place, sorry. Reverting.)
Line 7: Line 7:
 
| released=1991
 
| released=1991
 
}}
 
}}
'''PagePlus''' released by '''Serif''' is a desktop publishing application for the Microsoft Windows operating system.  
+
'''PagePlus''' released by '''Serif''' is a desktop publishing application for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Serif has depreciated the PagePlus software in favor of the new Affinity titles.
  
 
== OLE2 vs. XML Based Format ==
 
== OLE2 vs. XML Based Format ==
Line 30: Line 30:
 
* [https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24685083&digital=yes Sample .PPP file at Archives New Zealand]
 
* [https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24685083&digital=yes Sample .PPP file at Archives New Zealand]
 
* [https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24685027&digital=yes Sample .PPP file at Archives New Zealand]
 
* [https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24685027&digital=yes Sample .PPP file at Archives New Zealand]
 +
 +
==Software==
 +
* [https://www.serif.com/en-us/legacy/downloads/ Serif Legacy Software download]
 +
* [https://archive.org/details/Serif_PagePlus_3.0_-_Desktop_publishing_for_Windows_3.1_-_SerifEng Serif PagePlus 3.0]
 +
 
== See Also ==  
 
== See Also ==  
  
 
* [[Wikipedia:Serif_products#Serif_PagePlus]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Serif_products#Serif_PagePlus]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:PagePlus]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:PagePlus]]
 +
* [https://www.serif.com/pageplus/ Serif PagePlus official site (depreciated)]
  
 
[[Category:Microsoft Compound File]]
 
[[Category:Microsoft Compound File]]
 
[[Category:XML based file formats]]
 
[[Category:XML based file formats]]

Revision as of 18:20, 2 August 2019

File Format
Name Serif PagePlus
Ontology
Extension(s) .ppp
PRONOM fmt/671, others
Released 1991

PagePlus released by Serif is a desktop publishing application for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Serif has depreciated the PagePlus software in favor of the new Affinity titles.

Contents

OLE2 vs. XML Based Format

PagePlus X3 uses a new XML based format, enabling PagePlus versions from X3 onwards to open documents made in later versions.

Compressed Internal Objects

Some objects inside the PPP OLE2 file may be compressed. In version 9.03 for example, the file titled 'contents' is compressed, with the following file header suggesting this:

20 00 00 80 43 6F 6D 70 72 65 73 73 69 6F 6E 46 69 6C 65 00 EE 11 00 00 79 47 00 00 02 00 02 00

Which translates to:

...€CompressionFile.î...yG......

The existence of these compressed objects makes it difficult to penetrate the file type to retrieve information such as the user content. This may be considered a preservation risk without further information from a specification or a reverse engineering exercise.

Sample Files

Software

See Also

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox