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Folks:
I'm helping a neighbor who had some important documents on an old CRT iMac, which we just replaced with a metal-front Intel-based iMac running 10.5.x (Great machine!) I've transferred all her files to the new machine. I also moved her Epson C86 printer to the new machine.
The files at issue are ordinary Appleworks 6 WP documents.
The Appleworks 6 application runs just fine on the new machine, under Rosetta (I guess). The documents open and appear just as they should on the screen.
The problem comes when trying to print. I open one of the documents, verify it looks right on the screen, and then I check the File-->Page Setup settings. The values that come up are for "Any Printer" and are crazy: for example, scaling is set at 1856% (or some such number).
I can adjust the settings for the Epson C86, US letter-sized, but as soon as I do that the document on the screen shrinks down to tiny. Nothing prints. Printing Preview shows a tiny document.
I haven't been able to figure out any way to adjust the Page Setup to get out of this. I guess the problem is that Page Setup parameters aren't always portable from machine to machine, even if the printer itself is the same. I don't know much about her previous setup. It's possible the documents had been maintained with Page Setup parameters for an entirely different printer
Workaround: I can open a new Appleworks documents and transfer the old document content to the new file by copy-and-paste. That solves the problem: The new document looks like the old one on the screen, Page Setup works just as expected, and the documents print just as they should.
I'm reluctant to apply this workaround because there are quite a few documents to transfer, and this work-around will set the creation and last-modified dates of the resulting files to the present, which is a slight disadvantage when it comes to managing her documents/
My question: Are there any other measures to deal with this issue? I'm imagining something like using "Option-File-->Page Setup" to completely clear any existing Page Setup parameters. Or.... ?
TIA,
Henry

Hello
It's an old oddity.
My workaround is:
Save as AW5 document then open the newly created AW5 document with AW6.
This removes the embedded print record.
Added feature: it rebuilds the internal pointers so it drop possible ramping corruption.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 24 juin 2008 19:13:27)

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