Appleworks 6 draw and paint crash/restart typing in text tool, save crash

This has happened 15 times in the past week,
1st in draw when typing using text tool many times, so I got into saving, then same last night in paint, i was trying to save because familiar with problem crash and the automatic restart, this happened when trying to save file and typing file name in popup window, I lost quite a bit of work, 1hr., there is not much point in trying to use this app. if this cannot be fixed.
Also, many of the tools are grayed out and not usable, and pallets specifically line weights arrows not available. No color pallet for line, no way to draw straight line in paint mode, much more that is difficult or impossible, can't figure out easy way to make new page the size I want other than by adjusting pixel numbers.
May be or not related, when I try to open a doc file from outside, I get a popup telling me I have to buy apple software.
This macbook is new as of Jan. 2010, the box said ilife etc., so is this true, I would expect what came with the macbook to just work, no hassle.
Should I try gimp?, someone told me it is as good as photoshop even easier.
I have paintbrush, tux, etc,
None of these apps. works as well as the old macpaint and macdraw from way back in the old black and white days. All very discouraging. This stuff should work as well as those apps. did. Oh well, I rather like the old pencil and paper, but I was trying to do a brochure.
Photos, typesetting, drawing, cut paste etc.
Isn't this what appleworks is for?
anybody out there have any suggestions.
I read 'strange behavior appleworks' and peggy's re, I don't find any appleworks in my preference folder as suggested.
Is it possible other keystroke commands like in speech app. could cause this restart?
Thank you anyone out there who reads this and might know an easy fix.
primative

That the problem occurs when typing, this user tip might help.

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i want to do this on a document of my own instead of doing it from a blank peice but when i open my own picture in appleworks it doesnt allow me to select the eraser to do this as it did in paint when starting a new piece
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sorry if i sound confusing, im trying to describe best i can, im coming from microsoft paint and so am trying to do the same things i did on there,

Hello
It seems that your documents are opened as Draw ones.
To use the eraser you must open them as Paint ones.
In fact to do exactly what you ask for it would be useful to use the two formats.
Use the paint one to erase unneeded areas.
Select what you want to display, copy then paste in a Draw document.
Do the same with an other bloc of the original picture.
So, you will have several blocks whose behaviour will mimic layers.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 29 mars 2007 20:41:19)

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Gene, those are incredibly old applicaitons that were based on PPC (Power PC) versions of OS X. Beginning with Lion legacy apps that are PPC based are no longer supported. There are numerous tools availalbe however you will need to do a little legwork to find what you want. I would recommend using Google and search using "Appleworks draw and paint replacements Lion" and you will find a lot of hits. Once you have located one that will import your legacy files then you should be all set.
BTW if you would lke to provide feedback to Apple regarding this you can reach them at www.apple.com/feedback.

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Cwk DRAW is a winner! But it's getting sticky. I have Pages as well but tryiing to do illustrations with it laughable. Or cryable. Why does't Apple see the chance to polish up their wonderful DRAW.V6.cwk?

I too LOVE AppleWorks Draw element. I never much used any of the other parts including Paint. I now have over a thousand draw documents and continue to create more to this day. I get complements for the graphic qualities of flyers I've made with AW6. I use it to create forms for business and personal needs, electrical schematics, floor plans, charts, business cards, brochures. The list is endless. A great 'sidekick' to AW6 is Graphic Converter. It's a Shareware product out of Germany that works great for many tasks AW can't do. And I only use maybe 5% of the functions GC is capable of doing.
I love Pages as a MS WORD replacement. It is a joke to try to use it to replace any graphic program. I tried EasyDraw and found it may be a good replacement for someone to use starting out but impossible to convert my many AWDraw documents as doing so imports the entire document as single (ie: grouped) graphic object.
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