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Replacement for Appleworks "Draw" Program?

Hi -

With Apple's announcement that it will no longer upgrade or support Appleworks, can anyone recommend a simple (and inexpensive) replacement for AW's Draw program? I use it a lot for creating CD/DVD covers and inserts and would love to find a more modern and -- but non-complex -- replacement. Thanks for any recommendations.

Shelly

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 15, 2007 10:42 AM

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Aug 16, 2007 5:58 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Hi, Yvan.

Yes, that works as far as transferring information from one Appleworks drawing document to Pages. However, the position of the pasted information is wrong and forces me to manually realign the text. Now consider performing those operations on hundreds of documents.

I'm still searching for a viable solution and have asked Apple to produce one.

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Aug 16, 2007 9:09 AM in response to Shelly Friedman1

With Apple's announcement that it will no longer upgrade or support Appleworks, ....


I guess I don't understand the premise here. It's been years and years since Apple has supported AW in any reasonable way, and it's been known or at least accepted for some time that nothing further was likely to happen after 6.2.9.

The only thing that's changed is that it's no longer sold in the Apple Store. The support page ( http://www.apple.com/support/appleworks/) still exists, downloads and links are still alive from there, and of course there is still this forum and the rest of the support structure in place (knocking softly on wood).

At the end of the day, why start rushing around now to look for a replacement? If it meets your needs and will continue to do so, then you should, and should be able to, continue to use it.

In a different thread in a different forum I came across a post which stated that AW would not be usable on Leopard. If that's the case, it's come as news to me — is it some announcement that I've missed, some connection I've not made?

If so — so sad, too bad, and will just delay my transition into the new OS.
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Aug 16, 2007 9:19 AM in response to Michael Morgan1

In a different thread in a different forum I came across a post which stated that AW would not be usable on Leopard. If that's the case, it's come as news to me — is it some announcement that I've missed, some connection I've not made?


Anything anyone says anywhere about Leopard that is not explicitly stated on http://www.apple.com/macosx/ is conjecture and has no bearing on the truth. Apple has not yet released the final release of Leopard, and therefore such posts should not be believed, should be disregarded with the stories of big foot, the lochness monster, and stories of people flying under their own power. Also note such posts if found here disobey the terms of use because we aren't allowed to speculate.
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Aug 16, 2007 9:56 AM in response to a brody

I did not say it would not, a brody. I was replying to Michael's statement that he did not understand the premise of the post to which he was replying. It is understandable that people would become nervous on hearing that a product is officially no more, regardless of what that proves to mean in real life. The disappearance of the appleworks updaters certainly seems to me to indicate that there well may be an active change in the degreee to which apple wishes appleworks to maintain a presence.
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Replacement for Appleworks "Draw" Program?

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