Appleworks to pages

Hi JacoVanDelden,
Welcome to Pages discussions.

First thank you for searching these blogs forums prior to posting, commendable actually. However, sometimes searching and searching we cannot find the information we want when we don't know how to phrase the question. Maddening huh.

Anyway, do look at this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6530669&#6530669

You'll find your answer in Yvan's second and third post.

Hope this helps you.

Sincerely,

RicD

Hi JacoVanDelden,
Follow the link to Yvan's iDisk. Click For_iWork > For_Pages, there you'll see scripts. My suggestion is to contact Yvan, a most congenial fellow, for his advice for the correct script. He creates many scripts for us users. He sometimes creates without being asked, he sees a need then creates a script for all to use. On a good day I can spell "Script". 🙂

Truly I'm not speaking for him that would be highly inappropriate, maybe if he reads your post here he may jump in to assist you perhaps.

That's the best I can offer.

Sincerely,

RicD

You are perfectly right Ric.

On my iDisk, in the folder

For_iWork > for_Pages

are several useful scripts.
The interesting ones here are:

batch_AW6WP2Pages.zip which batch convert AW6 WP documents as Pages ones.

For those having older files,
batch_AW5WP2AW6.zip batch convert them into AW6 documents
batch_AW56WP2Pages.zip batch convert every AW WP documents to Pages ones.
Both of them requires AppleWorks 6.

I used the number 5 in the name because the question mark used in old version was a wrongdoer disabling the download feature.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 18 avril 2008 12:57:57)

a - my first Name is not Yvon but Yvan 😉

b - I forgot to repeat the link to my iDisk:

<http://idisk.mac.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>



click on the small down arrow on the right edge.

c - explanations are given at the very beginning of the script.

d - I don't know what is a "blue folder" and was never asked for a Password when working with an AW document.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 25 avril 2008 11:54:35)

Hi Yvan,

Having just purchased iWorks '08 I am on my way to update all my AppleWork 6 documents to Pages. I downloaded most of your scripts from you site and especially batch_AW56WP2Pages.zip and batch_AW6WP2Pages.zip.
However I could not make these scripts execute what they were written for after compilation and saving them as applications as you mentionned.

For the test I dragged a very small AW6 file "test [v6.0].cwk" onto the script icon on the Desktop.
1/ batch_AW56WP2Pages.zip did NOT create the folder wasAW_nowPages on the Desktop. It stopped running with the alert: "-1700 : System Events got an error: Can't make end of "myHD:Users:myName:Desktop" into type location reference".
2/ batch_AW6WP2Pages.zip DID create the folder wasAW_nowPages on the Desktop, opened Pages, took over 30 seconds to process the small file ⚠ and finish with the alert "Process is done !". However the corresponding Pages document was not created in the folder wasAW_nowPages.

I have AppleWork 6.2.9 running on an iMac G5, Tiger 10.4.11 and plenty of mem.

Please help !

Jean-Claude Jesior wrote:
Hi Yvan,

Having just purchased iWorks '08 I am on my way to update all my AppleWork 6 documents to Pages. I downloaded most of your scripts from you site and especially batch_AW56WP2Pages.zip and batch_AW6WP2Pages.zip.
However I could not make these scripts execute what they were written for after compilation and saving them as applications as you mentionned.

For the test I dragged a very small AW6 file "test [v6.0].cwk" onto the script icon on the Desktop.
1/ batch_AW56WP2Pages.zip did NOT create the folder wasAW_nowPages on the Desktop. It stopped running with the alert: "-1700 : System Events got an error: Can't make end of "myHD:Users:myName:Desktop" into type location reference".
2/ batch_AW6WP2Pages.zip DID create the folder wasAW_nowPages on the Desktop, opened Pages, took over 30 seconds to process the small file ⚠ and finish with the alert "Process is done !". However the corresponding Pages document was not created in the folder wasAW_nowPages.

Hello

To be honest, I never imagined that someone would be able to use a .zip file without unpacking it.
I assumes that in fact, you unpacked them 😉

I wrote and tested them on a G5 with 10.4.11.

So I'm a bit surprised by the described behavior.
I will re-test.

May you check that the checkbox labeled "Enable access for assistive devices" in the Universal Access System Preference pane is checked?

I just made new tests. The script batch_AW6WP2Pages translated the 10 given files flawlessly.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 4 juin 2008 10:20:50)

Hello

For batch_AW56WP2Pages.zip there really was a problem.

I understand what was the wrongdoer.
When I tested back, I found the described oddity so, I re-inserted the required changes and got a working script.
I saved it … and discovered that it was saved on the desktop, not in its source folder so, I was quite OK to archive again the old-odd version.
As I discovered the odd behavior, now, I passed the corrected one.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 4 juin 2008 11:35:33)

Hi Yvan,

I downloaded again batch_AW6WP2Pages from http://idisk.mac.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web and ran it after checking "Enable access for assistive devices" in the Universal Access System Preference pane : it worked flawlessly . If this checkbox is unchecked, it doesn't work. Mystery, mystery...

Thanks for your great help.

Jean-Claude Jesior wrote:
I downloaded again batch_AW6WP2Pages from http://idisk.mac.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web and ran it after checking "Enable access for assistive devices" in the Universal Access System Preference pane : it worked flawlessly . If this checkbox is unchecked, it doesn't work. Mystery, mystery...

No mystery, the script uses GUI scripting which requires that this checkbox is checked.

As it is always checked on my machine because I'm forced to use GUI scripting daily, I often forget to write this requirement.
And I'm too lazy to paste the code checking that it is really checked in every script 😉

In batch_AW56WP2Pages and in batch_AW6WP2Pages, the only piece of code using GUI scripting is this handler:

-- =============

on getNbWindows()
tell application "System Events" to tell (first process whose title is theApp) to return count of windows
end getNbWindows

-- =============

It's a short one but it's sufficient to requires the checked checkbox.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 4 juin 2008 14:29:44)