If you are looking for information on how these versions interact or how to manage a legacy workflow, this guide covers the essentials of the Distiller-PageMaker relationship. What is Adobe Acrobat Distiller?
If setting up a VM is too complex, you can emulate the behavior of old Distiller for free using modern open-source tools: Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4.x 5.x For Pagemaker 7.0 Free