Since I am running Mac OS X 10.6 on an iMac 24″, doing a Save As… in an OS 9 app like PageMaker is no longer an option. However, I have many, many PageMaker files and find that I am constantly needing to go back to them to retrieve stuff that is now, by computer standards, ancient history. Obviously they only get opened as they are needed, but there is an annoying little quirk.

Kerning and tracking problems I can live with. But is there any reason why the conversion always places the contents of the PageMaker file on a new layer (with red as the layer colour), leaving the default layer (with that nice blue colour) untouched? It doesn't affect my ability to work with the file in any way except that it jarrs with my aesthetic senses.