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Jul 6, 2011 3:26 PM in response to Richard Riegnerby Peggy,★HelpfulThe iWork (no 's') applications - Keynote, Pages & Numbers - can only open AppleWorks 6 presentation, word processing & spreadsheet documents, respectively. They will not open any other type of AppleWorks 6 files or any AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks files.
The third-party application, EazyDraw, can open AppleWorks draw documents. If you still have access to AppleWorks you can copy the contents of draw documents, paste them into an AppleWorks word processing document in object mode (click the arrow in the tool panel), save the WP document & then open it in Pages. You can copy & paste from AppleWorks to Pages but you would have to do it object by object or it will be one big uneditable object.
There is nothing other than AppleWorks that can open paint or database documents. Database data can be copied & pasted into an AppleWorks spreadsheet, saved & opened in Numbers or saved as ASCII/plain text & opened in most any spreadsheet, database or word processing program. Pages can merge from an Numbers spreadsheet or AddressBook. Since copying & pasting from database to spreadsheet won't copy & paste the column titles, you will need to enter them manually & then define that row as a header row in Numbers in order to use it for merging with Pages.
Paint documents can be saved as one of many different formats to be opened in most image editing programs. I recommend using PICT for best results.
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Jul 15, 2011 12:21 PM in response to Richard Riegnerby christopher rigby1,I've tried to Lion-proof my future by converting AW documents as follows :
WP - Save As RTF (and Word, though obviously that's not for you)
DR - Save As any image file, e.g. JPEG, though there is no way to preserve individual graphics objects*
PT - similar
DB - (sorry, as a FMP user for 17 years I don't know the answer to this.)
SS - Save As an eXcel file either Mac or Win, or as an ASCII text file
* if it's a particular important document, and you have a layer-based image editor such as Photoshop, each graphic object can be copied and pasted as a separate layer, though each will have to be re-positioned. It would REALLY have to be worth doing!
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Mar 12, 2014 6:22 AM in response to Richard Riegnerby Joe Mon,Hello everyone,
the free solution to open many old archives it's http://www.libreoffice.org
Enjoy it!
