Appleworks drawing files

I can open Appleworks word processing files through Pages, but I can't open my drawing files. What program can I open my Appleowrks drawing files in?

Hello,
you can try:
free: LibreOffice 4.2 or mwawOSX: an AppleScript in https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw ( which may be marginally better ).
commercial: EazyDraw or Intaglio
or to virtualize SnowLeopard to run AppleWorks
Ps: http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page3.html explains the different possibilities...

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Appleworks Drawing files can be opened and used with Eazy Draw

I bought a new IMac with Snow Leopard last week and after a lot of frustration and talking to Apple Tech Support folks, determined that the several thousand Drawing files would never be able to be used on my new Mac. How could Apple leave me high and dry with no access to my files. Several pages back on this forum someone mentioned Eazy Draw and so I went to www.eazydraw.com and payed $20 for a 9 month trial. Within 2 minutes of downloading the trial version I was using it and opening the files. It works wonderful for opening the Drawing files and working with them. I assume it works equally as well with the other areas of Appleworks.

I assume it works equally as well with the other areas of Appleworks.
No: Draw only. Pages opens Word Processing, Numbers opens Spreadsheets, Keynote opens Presentations, but nothing will open Paint or Database documents.
This set of pages may be of interest:
http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/aw/page1.html

Appleworks Drawing & Painting: Color palettes *still* getting scrambled

I have a problem when using Appleworks drawing files with painting frames.
An Appleworks painting frame normally has two color palettes. One comes from the Drawing document, and this determines the background color of the painting frame. Anywhere that has no other color has this color. The other comes from the painting frame itself.
When clicking into the painting frame, both of these can get scrambled, with unpredictable results. In some cases, although both the drawing document and the painting frame used the same [presentation] palette, and the background color and another color were supposed to be the same, one could switch to another color. I started resetting the background color of each painting frame to white [in the drawing document], and filling it with whatever color I needed [in the painting frame] which solved one of the problems.
However, I'm still facing the annoying problem that the color palette gets scrambled. When I click into the Painting Frame, the color palette scrambles. If I start painting, it gets screwed up. If I switch the palette from presentation, to something else, back to presentation, that fixes it for the moment. If I click out of the painting frame, and then back into it, or click from one painting frame into another painting frame, the color palette scrambles again. I have to switch the palette twice each time I enter the frame.
Is there any way to correct this problem?

The earliest version of AppleWorks stable in OS X is 6.2.4. That you're using 6.2.2 could be a big part of the problem. Since AppleWorks was designated "end-of-life" it is difficult to find the updaters (especially the US/North American) on Apple's site. Here is the page with the links I have for the 6.2.9 updater. The page has a link to the North American updater in the upper right (the blue 15.8 MB) & links to other languages further down.
AppleWorks 6.2.9 for Mac
Whenever you do an update, it's a good idea to do two maintenance tasks, one for the system (Repair Permissions) and one for AppleWorks (delete preferences). (Thanks to Barry for this way to format this very common answer.)
To Repair permissions, launch Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder, click on First Aid, then on Repair Permissions.
To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences. Find and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist. Find and open the folder AppleWorks in this Preferences folder, then delete all of the enclosed files (with the exception of the Button Bar Preferences if you have customized the Button Bars). AppleWorks will recreate the preference files as it needs them.

How can I open AppleWorks 6 files using Pages or Word?

I am currently running Mac OS X v.10.4.11, but I am turning in my old mac for a new one in about a week. Almost all of my important files are AppleWorks 6 files and my new mac will not have this program since it has been replaced with Pages. I currently have AppleWorks 6, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Pages 08 on my old mac. I am unsure as to what applications I will have on my new mac (I am a teacher and the macs are school computers so I do not have control over the software), but I think it will have both Word 2008 and Pages 08 or 09. So far I have not had any luck opening my AppleWorks files in Pages or Word. I have been able to copy and paste the AppleWorks files into Pages (they are mostly Draw documents, not simple word processing), but they become an image so I cannot edit the content. I need to be able to edit my documents on my new computer and do not have time to open each AppleWorks file and copy it to Pages anyway. Any suggestions to help me with this compatibility problem?

AppleWorks will run fine on your new Mac, though if you transfer it from the old one you should delete it from there to stay within the terms of the licence. You would need to copy the Appleworks folder over, not just the application.
Pages can open Appleworks 6 word processing documents, Numbers can open Appleworks 6 spreadsheets. It's possible to open AW Draw documents in Eazydraw, or in Pages through a workaround. Nothing will open AW Database documents.
I have written a detailed article going into the process of migrating from Appleworks, including the workaround for Draw>Pages:
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/aw

Problems with AppleWorks drawing docs under Snow Leopard

Since I installed Snow Leopard, I've encountered two major problems:
(Problem 1) AppleWorks gets corrupted when dragging a picture file (.jpg or .png) from the desktop into a drawing document. Various dialogs (e.g. "Format : Document..." or "Format : Ruler : Settings ..." or "Options : Object Size ...") become uneditable. These dialogs will display blank boxes instead of the given object settings, and nothing can be entered into these boxes. AppleWorks must be shut down and restarted in order to continue work.
(Problem 2) When a formula (i.e. an equation) has been created in a MathType window, selected and copied, it takes ages to make AppleWorks the active application (spinning rainbow coloured ball appears and keeps spinning for a long while). Thereafter, it takes another century to get the formula appearing in the AppleWorks document when selecting the command "Edit : Paste".
Everything worked still fine under Leopard; under Snow Leopard it's a desaster.
p.s.
I've produced thousands of work sheets for my Maths teachings using the Drawing module of AppleWorks in combination with MathType (Design Science). Now I'm stuck since there is no decent successor of AppleWorks available:
* iWork doesn't feature a drawing module.
* EazyDraw doesn't collaborate with MathType (i.e. no OLE; inserted formulae cannot be edited by double-clicking).
* OpenOffice doesn't collaborate with MathType.
* Micro$oft Office doesn't feature a drawing module.

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I don't use AppleWorks as much as I used to & I've never had a need to use MathType, but I just tried dragging 3 images - a .png, a .tiff & a .jpg - to a new AppleWorks draw document. I had no problems resizing them using Format > Scale by percent & I had no problems using any of the other dialog boxes you mention.
Some basic troubleshooting you might try:
Whenever you do an update, it's a good idea to do two maintenance tasks, one for the system (Repair Permissions) and one for AppleWorks (delete preferences). (Thanks to Barry for this way to format this very common answer.)
To Repair permissions in 10.4.x, launch Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder, click on First Aid, then on Repair Permissions.
To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > Library > Preferences. Find and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist. Find and open the folder AppleWorks in this Preferences folder, then delete all of the enclosed files (with the exception of the Button Bar Preferences if you have customized the Button Bars). AppleWorks will recreate the preference files as it needs them. You should do this step anytime AppleWorks crashes or you force quit it.
The slowness is likely the "Recent Items bug" & it has been around since AppleWorks 6 was released in March, 2000. It can make it appear that AppleWorks has frozen or failed to launch. The user tip by Dale Gillard, AppleWorks slow? Spinning ball appears?, explains a lot.
Could you send me a copy of one of these worksheets? Perhaps I can see if I can easily duplicate one in Pages/Numbers/Keynote. Even though iWork doesn't have a draw app, all of the apps do have basic drawing capabilities.

What software comes closest to performing tasks like I could do on the Appleworks drawing program ?

What software is available for MacOSX that comes closest to performing like the old Appleworks drawing program?

Maybe Apple's iWork, or more specifically Pages - part of a package of three apps (Pages/Numbers/Keynote).
I never used Appleworks but Pages has some drawing tools for lines/boxes/circles/stars, etc. as well as a tool for freehand shapes. It will also open Microsoft Word files and Pages files can be exported in Word format.
Numbers is akin to Microsoft's Excel and will open Excel files and also export as Excel.
Keynote is an excellent app for presentations - a competitor to PowerPoint. Again it'll open PowerPoint files and export them.
Finally - I'm not 100% on this so hopefully someone else will chime in - but I believe Pages will open AppleWorks files.
iWork is available from the Mac App Store. The apps can be bought individually if you don't need all of them.

Appleworks Drawing & Painting: Color palettes getting scrambled

I'm currently putting together a drawing document using multiple painting frames. I'm happy to use one color palette - the presentation palette - throughout, but Appleworks keeps scrambling the colors.
This happens each time I switch between the drawing document and the painting frames, or between two painting frames. The effect is to change some of the colors in the palette, and in the document too. At times a completely different palette appears, under the same presentation heading. Two places which are supposed to have the same color, and the same cell in the palette, get different colors, using the same cell of the palette.

The earliest version of AppleWorks stable in OS X is 6.2.4. That you're using 6.2.2 could be a big part of the problem. Since AppleWorks was designated "end-of-life" it is difficult to find the updaters (especially the US/North American) on Apple's site. Here is the page with the links I have for the 6.2.9 updater. The page has a link to the North American updater in the upper right (the blue 15.8 MB) & links to other languages further down.
AppleWorks 6.2.9 for Mac
Whenever you do an update, it's a good idea to do two maintenance tasks, one for the system (Repair Permissions) and one for AppleWorks (delete preferences). (Thanks to Barry for this way to format this very common answer.)
To Repair permissions, launch Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder, click on First Aid, then on Repair Permissions.
To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences. Find and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist. Find and open the folder AppleWorks in this Preferences folder, then delete all of the enclosed files (with the exception of the Button Bar Preferences if you have customized the Button Bars). AppleWorks will recreate the preference files as it needs them.

Will any Lion compatible application open AppleWorks paint files?

Is there any available application open AppleWorks paint files?
Better yet, any Lion compatible application that will do so.

I've been saving my completed AppleWorks Draw documents for a long time by copying them into Preview and saving from there, but, of course, you lose the ability to edit them then.
A bit off-topic, but I've found that you can't copy/paste an AppleWorks Paint document directly into Preview in Snow Leopard (as you could in previous versions of the OS). You need to paste it into an AppleWorks Draw document first, and then you can copy it from there, go to Preview, and use Command +n to make a new Preview document from the clipboard which then can be saved in the image format you prefer.
Until something that truly replaces AppleWorks comes along, I'm stuck in Snow Leopard, I'm afraid.
I'm just not willing to "make do" with several different applications that don't do as much as AppleWorks does as easily as AppleWorks does it.
Progress … isn't always.

Opening appleworks 6 files on iworks - pages

Hi all,
Got a new imac after the sad death of my G5. Have downloaded my copied data held in cloud. I created a a lot of files in appleworks 6 using the drawing facility. All these files end in '.cwk'
Iworks pages will not open them as they're not a word processing document.. Has anyone any idea of how I can rescue these old appleworks 6 files? Thanks Jenny

OK.
I'm familair with AppleWorks' capabilities; use it all the time.
The problem comes from the formatting used by AW for the various kinds of files it can create, hence my request for clarification.
AW word processing files can be opened by Pages.
AW spreadsheets can be opened by Numbers.
AW presentations can be opened by Keynote.
Unfortunately, there is no equivalent in iWorks for AW drawing-type documents.
I just created a simple drawing file in AW (.cwk suffix type) and tried to find something other than AW which could open it. Unfortunately I could not - none of the iWorks modules could open it, and even GraphicConverter could not open it.
I re-opened the file in AW and re-saved it as a JPEG file via a Save As, and Preview had no problem opening it. Of course, it opened as a static image file; none of the object elements in the original file were addressable as such.
It looks like for your purposes you will probably need to install AppleWorks 6 on your new machine.
I installed the version I use in OS X 10.6.7 by simple drag-copying from a drive to which I had copied all the stuff on my G4 running OS 9. It was a new enough version of AW 6 that it was an "application package program" (.app) version, which meant that it includes versions for both OS 9 and OS X. The specific version I have is AppleWorks v. 6.2.9 (which showed as 6.2.8 in OS 9).
Note that AppleWorks is a PPC program, meaning it is not native to an Intel machine. When I went to run it the first time on my iMac, OS X stated it needed to install Rosetta in order to be able to use that program; I clicked OK and it did that. The importance of this is that AW6 will not run in Lion, since Lion does not support Rosetta.
As an alternate you could find someone who has AppleWorks 6 available to them. They could take those files and convert them (via a Save As) to JPEG or other format usable by the software you have.
Note that you can open/create a document in Pages, and then drop a JPEG into it. The Pages wp doc will then contain that picture.

Opening AW drawing files

I have drawing documents created in Appleworks. Under 10.5 they no longer open. When I try using maclinkplus I get a message: This is an IN CONTROL document. In order to translate this file into a different format, you must do the following:
1. Open the file in IN CONTROL.
2. Choose "Export To..." in the File menu.
3. Select "MacWrite II*".
I have no idea what this means.
Is there any way to open these files in 10.5 AW 6?

Please ignore this question. I made a mistake. Drawing files do open. The ones I was trying to open were system 9 files.
Sorry.

Can i still use my Appleworks drawing feature if I install Snow Leopard?

I work for a small business man and use my old Appleworks drawing program to make certificates and flyers for him because it is so easy to manipulate individual parts of the text and pictures. I want to update my computer so it can communicate with my ipad, but am afraid I will loose the ability to use my files and program. Can I still use my appleworks drawing program if I download Snow Leopard?

Your profile says you already have Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
AppleWorks doesn't run in Lion (10.7).

Looking for a drawing app like Appleworks drawing to use with Yosemite

Can someone tell me the name of a drawing application, similar to Appleworks Drawing, that can be used on OS 10.10 Yosemite? I'd like to upgrade to Yosemite but it doesn't support Appleworks.

Get the demo for Intaglio. Great app, great support from developer.
C.

Upgraded to 10.6.7 and now having various issues with Appleworks Drawing program.

HELP...I just upgraded to 10.6.7 and now my Appleworks drawing program is slow - beach balls all the time, I can not copy into other programs, copy and paste messes with the formatting, fills and lines disappear, Fonts are messed up when copied...ON and ON..I Installed rosetta from the 10.6.7 install disk but still no luck. Any advice is appreciated, I am in a crunch with drawing deadlines an no time to learn another drawing program..Yes I am old school.and HELP!

You could look at EazyDraw: the version on the website is $95 download, $139 box and manual: it will open ClarisWorks drawings and is a powerful vector drawing program which makes a good replacement for Appleworks.
There is a much cheaper version in the Mac App Store but note that this version does not open AppleWorks documents.

Can't open old appleworks/clarisworks files

I have just purchased the new intel iMac and cannot open my old clarisworks/appleworks 5 files properly. I imported them from my old 333 MHz/OS 9.2.2 iMac using a jump drive. Is my best option to try MacLink? I will be purchasing MS Word also but have found that some of the old files will not format properly when I try to open them in the trial version of Word which came with the new computer. The text files are fine when I open them in Word but anything like tables, charts is a formatted mess. I did use MacLink on my old iMac and found it worked well but it is a bit more expensive now than when I bought it before ($20) .

Thank you Peggy and Barry. I never realized that the jump drives were formatted to Windows or Mac but I am really new at some of these advances in file transfer as well as just about everything else in Apple Computer land. However, regarding the jump drive which I used to transfer the old files: it is a Lexar Jump Drive 2 GB, USB 2.0 Flash Drive. The installation notes indicate that it is for "Windows 2000/Me/XP and Mac OS 9.0 or Higher. No driver installation required. Plug the JumpDrive into the USB port on your computer and it's ready for use." That would indicate to me that this is probably not the problem. As I indicated before, the old files which are straight text which were created in AW 5 or perhaps even earlier versions and/or Clarisworks open perfectly, properly formatted, etc. when I drag them onto the trial version of Microsoft Word located on the dock of my new computer. My problem is with charts created in the word processor and spreadsheets which display as garbage when I drag them onto MS Word. Regarding the ethernet option, I would think that I still would have the same problem since I have no appropriate program on my new computer to open those old files - the trial version of MS Word isn't doing it for all the files. There are no firewire ports on my old iMac so that is not an option. I have come to the conclusion that Peggy's suggestion of purchasing AW 6.2.4 at the very reasonable price of $24.99 from Hardcore Mac sounds like the most promising option since I would then have an application on my new computer which should open the old files assuming that it does recognize the old AW created files (I believe that some of them were created in versions earlier than AW 5). I am assuming that the intel processor in my new computer isn't going to be a problem with AW 6.2.4. So I'm ready to purchase this program. Does this sound like the most reasonable course of action to follow? Thanks again for your help.

Appleworks cwk files will not open in pages or numbers

I use AppleWorks 6.2.9. Since my upgrade to 10.6.8 AppleWorks will not permit the settings in any document to be changed with first quitting AppleWorks, removing the plist, restarting AW, and opening the file a second time. This is annoying. So, I am looking into moving to Pages and Numbers for my AW word processing and spreadsheet documents. Pages '09 trail was downloaded from the network and no document selected can be opened by either program. I simply get a dialog stating "File could not be opened".
Nor will Pages or Numbers opened these files that were translated into a different format by MacLinkPlus. Basically Pages and Numbers can not process and .cwk, .doc, or .xls file on my computer.
I am looking for solutions.

I don't have any Appleworks files but Numbers & Pages users manuals say they will import Appleworks 6 files. I can't say why yours will not if they are Appleworks 6 documents.
I also don't have MacLinkPlus but it might be doing one of two things: saving in a pre-'97 format of Excel or saving with non-standard header information in the file that Numbers does not understand.
I'm not being of much help so far. I've been looking all over and haven't found a solution for you. Sorry.

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