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.

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