How do I upload Appleworks drawings to Photobucket. What save extension?

Question

I have Mac OS X 10.2.8. I have used draw (not paint) in Appleworks, and have saved them to my documents file and to my archive HP file. I want to upload them to Photobucket.com so I can link them to a forum board. No matter what extension I give these drawings, Photobucket cannot upload them. I have no trouble uploading photos in Photobucket. The error message will say no image, and then a screen flashes on and off way too fast for me to read saying that the following extensions must be used, but I can't read what it says. I have tried all manner of extensions and combinations of extensions. I have searched the help boards for hours to no avail. The drawing "manual" in Appleworks has nothing about saving and what extensions to use that I can see anyway. I have downloaded Photobucket's Flock application for Mac users. That doesn't work either although I might not have done that correctly HELP! Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello
When you open your AppleWorks 6 draw document and choose memu File > Save As…, a 'Save' dialogue will be open. In that dialogue, there should be 'File Format' drop-down menu. Now do you see file format options such as JPEG [QT], PNG [QT] and TIFF {QT] in the drop-down list?
If you do, choose e.g. JPEG [QT] and set the end of file name to ".jpg". This will do.
However, if you don't see those file format options, something is wrong with your AppleWorks 6 or OSX System. If such is the case, the first thing you should try is to reset relevant AppleWorks 6 preferences.
The protocol is -
(1) Quit AppleWorks 6 application
(2) Delete the following. (~ means your home directory)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appleworks.plist
~/Library/Preferences/AppleWorks/AppleWorks 6 Preferences
~/Library/Preferences/AppleWorks/AppleWorks 6 Translators Cache
(You may delete the rest in ~/Library/Preferences/AppleWorks/ as well)
(3) Empty trash.
(4) Launch AppleWorks 6 application
(5) Redo some settings, e.g. via menu Edit > Preferences.
cf.
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=607287
If this does not fix the drop-down menu in 'Save As' dialogue, then you should try normal OSX maintenance routines, such as Repair Permissions etc. Or to create a new user account and see if things work well in new user account could be a good way to narrow down the problem cause.
If even they fail to fix the drop-down menu, I think you should re-install QuickTime. For some reasons, QuickTime is responsible for these image file format conversions in AppleWorks 6.
(I don't use OSX for myself and don't know how to selectively re-install QuickTime only, though. Anyway once QuickTime is re-installed, I think you'd better reset AppleWorks 6 preferences again by the said protocol.)
Lastly, you can find some relevant help documents in the following paths. (Note JFIF means JPEG JFIF and it is the same thing as JPEG, generally.)
AppleWorks 6 Help
AppleWorks basics
  > Saving a document
    > Saving a document for use in another application
AppleWorks 6 Help
Index
  > F
    > file formats
      > Types of file formats that AppleWorks can read
Good luck,
H
  Mac OS 9.1.x