Convert Appleworks 5

MacLink no longer exists. You can't print a file you can't open. Is there ANY way to convert ab Applworks 5 file?
- ichael D.

Word Processing documents can be opened directly only in Pages.
Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more expensive version from their website, not the cheaper one from the Mac App Store, and you will need v4.0 'Retro' not the most recent version) or Intaglio (though this appears not to be able to handle very complex drawings).
Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in Numbers.
Presentations can be opened directly only in Keynote.
To use other programs, or open Painting or Database documents at all, you must export from AppleWorks first. Nothing other than AppleWorks can open AppleWorks databases.
This article examines the situation in some detail:
http://rfwilmut.net/aw

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Word Processing documents can be opened directly only in Pages (AppleWorks 6 only).
Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more expensive version from their website, not the cheaper one from the Mac App Store, and you will need v4.0 'Retro' not the most recent version) or Intaglio (though this appears not to be able to handle very complex drawings).
Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in Numbers.
Presentations can be opened directly only in Keynote.
To use other programs, or open Painting or Database documents at all, you must export from AppleWorks first.
If you can no longer run AppleWorks you cannot open these document types.
This article examines the situation in a lot more detail:
http://rfwilmut.net/aw

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You can use Apple's iWorks suite of programs (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) to do most of it in Lion.
Pages will open AppleWorks 6 word processing documents.
Numbers will open AW 6 spreadsheets.
Keynote will open AW 6 presentations.
You may already have those apps on your machine if you acquired it recently. If not, you can get them individually from the Mac Apple Store via download at about US$20 each; or on disk from the Apple Store for about US$80.
Note - with regard to word processing documents, Pages will open AW 6 versions, but not any earlier versions (such as AW 5 or ClarisWorks). So, be sure to update all you docs to AW 6 before transferring them to the Lion-booted machine.

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Install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels and have Appleworks operate concurrently with Mavericks:
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Then read Roger Wilmut's excellent series of articles on Abandoning Appleworks:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html

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Hi!
I have a bunch of .cwk files (AppleWorks) that I need to convert into RTF format.
In the script I use I have a proble with the following code:
tell application "AppleWorks"
activate
open MonFichier
save MonFichier in file (dossier & name_Fich & ".rtf") as file type "RTF" using translator "RTF"
close MonFichier saving no
end tell
After execution I end up with a brand new file with .rtf extension but that is not a RTF file. If I try to open it with Textedit it does not open. Strangely enough, if I open the cwk file manually and save it as RTF manually, everything is fine....
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I think you're seeing the known problem of AppleScript 2.0 used with some old program such as AppleWorks 6.
Briefly, AW6's translator name parameter must be in plain string not Unicode text while all text literal is Unicode text in AppleScript 2.0.
A workaround is to use data literal of class TEXT. Something like the following code.
--CODE
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
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end tell
end tell
--END OF CODE
cf.
A relevant topic:
Script failing to translate AW to DOC
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1650891&tstart=0
Hope this may help,
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M

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gaylesulli wrote:
I am running Appleworks on my iMac with OS 10.4.11. I am trying to transfer files to my MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.4 and using Microsoft Word. Is there any way to convert these Appleworks documents to Word?
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The Word translators come from DataViz, and were supplied with some versions of AppleWorks 6.
Regards,
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Appleworks 6.2.9 running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels 8 for use in Lion or Mt. Lion:
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Apple is now selling Snow Leopard Server for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping costs at 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only).

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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2522

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Review these excellent articles:
1. Abandoning Appleworks by Roger Wilmut:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html
or
2. Appleworks for the modern day, a migration tip by a brody:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2522
Do you have access to a Mac running Snow Leopard?
or,
Also you can run Appleworks 6.9.2 in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels 8 for use on your Mac running Mt. Lion:
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