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.

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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.

Strange change to color palette

Hi,
I have had a few blue screens recently on my old Windows XP system with Frame 7.2 and 3 GB RAM.
Now I see that my color palette is scrambled in one large manual. Only the basic colors are there and a long list of entries like RGB 017,013,010 are inthe palette. They don't do anything and I can't delete them via View > Color > Definitions.
The manual is 482 pages, 52 MB, with scores of graphics and photos imported by reference.
As a workaround, I copies the contents into a new file and that fixed the problem, but a few hours
later, the color palette is corrupted again.
Has anyone seen this before and is there a more sure workaround?
Yours,
Michael F

> ... originally saved all the images from a Word 10 file ...
Are these natural world photos, or screenshots?
> ... as png files.
PNG can do indexed color and contone. I'll bet MS provides no control over that at save.
> Word 10 seems to have added a Save as Picture option to the popup menu.
> If I save them as jpeg files and replace the png files, will that eliminate the
> odd colors in the Color Palette?
That's two separate questions:
1. Will they save as 24-bit contone?
2. Will reimporting them as contone clean up the Color Catalog?
answers:
1. maybe
2. probably not automatically (but is necessary to allow clean-up)
JPEG, alas, can also support indexed color (we've had trouble due to that).
What MS is doing is anyone's guess, because:
a. they never give us control (we're too stupid), and
b. they never tell us what they are doing (we don't need to know).
> Will there be any improvement in screen resolution?
Hard to say. It depends on how Mr.Bill saves, and whether your current zoom level affects that. JPEG will introduce artifacts - "ringing" at edges where the curve-match algorithm (DCT) runs out of gas. And since this is MS, you probably don't get to specify the JPEG compression level.
The ideal situation is to go back to the raw original art.
Any chance Word can save as TIFF?

Drawing/Paint App for Mac Mini?

I miss AppleWorks. Not for iPad, not for iPhone, just here on my MacMini, I need a drawing/painting app. Free if possible. I need to create a pic of what my visual disturbance looks like to show to a Doctor. There are a few other drawings I'd like to make, but this one is important.

There's really nothing like AppleWorks' drawing/painting modules but for drawing, Intaglio comes pretty close. For painting I don't know of any Mac native program that is close but you might want to look at iPaint, SumoPaint, or SketchPad - all of which are online paint programs.

Can I expect Appleworks DRAW to be upgraded? I have Ataxia and it's an absolute gem for me - but it's getting sticky.

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.
My solution: I spent $215 for a used but in great condition flat screen iMac running on OS10.5.8. That is the most current OS that can run AW6 without problems. It is fast (ie: building a graphic font menu to select from) and free of deterioration. Using Printer Sharing, I can print wirelessly via my MacMini running Mtn Lion.
On 10.6.8, AW falls apart quite rapidly. Auxillary windows fail after only a few minutes to a half hour if I am lucky. For instance, the font size window will open with the size field blank instead of with the size of the selected text shown. Entering a number fails. At that point, I can still use the [command-> or command-< to enlargen or shrink by one point size] so there are workarounds for many of these bugs. At that point, I usually save the document, quite AW and then restart it for a few more minutes before problems arise. My MBPro runs 10.6.8, so I still use it for mobile convenience then move my creation over to the iMac for permenant storage.
And I agree with the idea of Apple putting in the time to evolve the Draw element of AW into a program that runs on the new OS's. All the other parts have fine replacements: Pages, Numbers, Keynotes, Filemaker/Bento, etc. Draw stands out as the sole element left behind by "Progress".

General appleworks drawing and painting help ?????

1) i am basically interested in manipulating images on a basic level
i.e erasing certain parts and replacing them with others (e.g shapes)
i open appleworks in paint mode and understand i can select the eraser and then use it freehand to click over any parts i wish to delete
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
how do i go about this?
2) i also want to be able to select an area of the image and then copying it and then pasting it again onto the same image so that there is a somewhat duplicate of that image on the whole image wich i can then move around if i wish
is it possible to do this too?
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)

Opening AppleWorks Drawing docs in Pages

One of the frustrations some Pages users have expressed is not being able to open AppleWorks drawing docs. I've discovered a way to open AppleWorks drawings in Pages and keep the drawings editable. (The document has to be from a recent enough version of AppleWorks, 6.2.4 or 6.2.9.) It is basically just a matter of copying and pasting the drawing objects into an AW word processing document in the proper way, saving, then opening the doc in Pages.
To do this use the following procedure: Open the drawing document in AppleWorks, use "Select all" and then copy the selection. Now open a new Word Processor document in AppleWorks. If you don't have the tools palette visible, select Show Tools from the Window menu. Now click on the arrow pointer toward the top of the tool palette. (This deactivates the insert text cursor from the WP doc you just created. If you don't do this step your drawing objects will be pasted as a single uneditable graphic.)
Now do the Paste command and everything from your Drawing document is pasted into the WP doc, but still as a collection of individual drawing objects. Now save this document with whatever name you want. Then open the resulting document in Pages. It WILL open and all the drawing objects are still editable. I even found that you can still ungroup objects that were grouped in AW.
I doubt this is a perfect solution, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it work as well as it did in my limited testing.

Unfortunately, this is the only way to get those AppleWorks draw documents into Pages. I believe I described much the same process three years ago when Pages 1/iWork '05 was released. Back then, I don't think text boxes remained editable, but they do in Pages 2 & 3. Links between text boxes may be lost, but they are easily recreated in Pages.
I think that page layout mode in Pages 3 is very similar to AppleWorks draw & am surprised that this function doesn't exist. It's something I've left feedback for the Pages team about more than once.

Make color palette from an image

Guess I didn't phrase the question right... will try again =
I did a painting
I want to do another painting using the full color palette from that image (usually swatches in Corel Painter which does this)
No indexed color
RGB or CMYK palette
working with photoshop CS3
the painting I did shown below
publisher liked it - need to do more art using same colors - without picking them one at a time from the image

I use both (Painter and Photoshop)...
For some reason (and some of the beta testers involved in developing Painter have said this) Painter is not really stable... seems to suffer from a memory leak - meaning after a period of time it loses memory and will not even open an image it created (even with a boatload of Ram - which it can't seem to manage).
     The solution is to reboot. Also, even though I may work with Painter, I always do final color edits/setup for publication using Photoshop (including my 3D renders) -
     You are right about the capabilities of Painter, but Photoshop remains the big daddy of color work.
Thanks for your explanations... I'm decidedly low-key tech...
     I doodle, paint, etc. I took up digital because I hated getting dog and cat hair in my paintings and the nightmare of revising (client edits) to airbrush work - and publishers are all digital, so I send them digital files - makes all of us happy
Nate Owens: painter | illustrator | visionary's albums on Flickr

Tear-off color palette?

In older versions of AppleWorks, you used to be able to click and hold on the color palette pop up on the pen or object fill button and "tear" the palette off. Doing so would give you a whole host of different options, such as specifying the percentage of a selected color to make different shades based on the same color. This doesn't seem to work in the current version. Is there a way to do this or has this feature been removed for some reason?

The tearaway palettes in AW 5 were replaced with the Accents window in AW 6.
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Hi everyone,
I've been creating animted gifs using Matlab and the ImageMagick suite (convert). If I open the gifs in Preview, the color comes out fine in each frame; however i I use Quicktime (which is necessary, that's what we use for presentations) the color palette will change as the frames play.
I just got the newest version of Quicktime, hoping that it would solve the problem, but it didn't. Any ideas?

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Just started using Photoshop CC on my iMac and I have noticed this issue which I did not have using windows based computers. Any floating window just seems to hide in the background as soon as I click on the tabbed document I want to work on. This is an issue for me since I like to have a couple of references open while painting plus I always have another with nothing but my color palette in it. I've already gone over the preferences but can't seem to find the way to avoid this and the options from Widow>Arrange weren't any help also resizing all windows so that they don't overlap each other ends up wasting a lot of screen real estate.

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I know how to do this with Photoshop, and I assume it's a Photoshop engine working behind the scenes in/for InDesign when processing images, so I'm hoping this is attainable.
Semi-educated guesses:
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That the long way is to make alternate versions of each image used in the layout, swap them (such as with relink to file extension, e.g. GIF for TIF), and output a version specifically for embedding.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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