Q: File conversion

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jpfromorangeville

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Q: File conversion

How do I convert .cwk file (Appleworks 6) to .doc file so I can email it to PC user?

eMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 13, 2012 10:04 AM

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roam

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Appleworks uses the .tiff format not .jpeg, which makes images very large.

You might have to do two things, certainly the first step.

1. Convert it to .jpg

From the open Appleworks document, drag each image out of the document onto the Desktop, or some other convenient location.

Open each image in Preview and Save As and select JPEG as the format.

This should reduce their size considerably.

2. If there are a lot of these images it might be necessary to send them in separate emails rather than all lumped in one. From my experience Apple Mail can choke trying to send just a few MB's of pictures, hence the suggestion you may need to break it up, or alternatively use a free web based mail client like Hotmail or Yahoo, but either way, you must reduce these images down to a managable size if emailing them is your intent.

Posted on Dec 19, 2012 7:30 PM

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by BDAqua,

BDAqua Dec 13, 2012 11:04 AM in response to jpfromorangeville
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Dec 13, 2012 11:04 AM in response to jpfromorangeville

Do you still have Appleworks?

Which kind of .cwk is it? Text, Database, Spreadsheet, etc?
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by jpfromorangeville,

jpfromorangeville Dec 13, 2012 11:32 AM in response to BDAqua
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Dec 13, 2012 11:32 AM in response to BDAqua

Yes I do still have Appleworks. with which this file was written.

It is a Word Processing file.
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BDAqua Dec 13, 2012 1:16 PM in response to jpfromorangeville
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Dec 13, 2012 1:16 PM in response to jpfromorangeville

Great, open it in AW again, choose Save As..., then RTF or one of the Word choices under File Format.
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jpfromorangeville Dec 14, 2012 6:28 AM in response to BDAqua
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Dec 14, 2012 6:28 AM in response to BDAqua

The Word choices all come out garbled. I will try RTF & get back to you.
Will RTF be readable on a PC?
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by K.S.,

K.S. Dec 14, 2012 7:29 AM in response to jpfromorangeville
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Dec 14, 2012 7:29 AM in response to jpfromorangeville

It should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format, but you might lose some formatting.
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jpfromorangeville Dec 18, 2012 7:46 AM in response to K.S.
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Dec 18, 2012 7:46 AM in response to K.S.

I have some handwritten old manuscripts (in JPEG format) incorporated in my Appleworks document, and when converting to RTF they come out blurred. So I'm giving up on this conversion. Will try to do something with PDF.
Thank you all for your advice & help.
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jpfromorangeville Dec 18, 2012 7:47 AM in response to BDAqua
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Dec 18, 2012 7:47 AM in response to BDAqua

I have some handwritten old manuscripts (in JPEG format) incorporated in my Appleworks document, and when converting to RTF they come out blurred. So I'm giving up on this conversion. Will try to do something with PDF.
Thank you all for your advice & help.
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by BDAqua,

BDAqua Dec 18, 2012 11:10 AM in response to jpfromorangeville
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Dec 18, 2012 11:10 AM in response to jpfromorangeville

If you have any really important jpgs, in Appleworks you can select them, copy with CMD+c, then paste into a new Text Edit or other doc, maybe even over the blurry rtf one.
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jpfromorangeville Dec 19, 2012 9:53 AM in response to BDAqua
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Dec 19, 2012 9:53 AM in response to BDAqua

Thanks for the advice. The blurred documents came out good. The resulting RTF document, however,
has become enormous (95MB), and I haven't been able to send it as an attachment to an email.
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jpfromorangeville Dec 20, 2012 1:36 PM in response to roam
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Dec 20, 2012 1:36 PM in response to roam

Thanks for the message, but when I drag the images onto the desktop they come out as "Picture clipping.pictClipping". They open with a double click but do not open in Preview, and there is no
Save As choice anywhere.
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by roam,

roam Dec 20, 2012 2:24 PM in response to jpfromorangeville
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Dec 20, 2012 2:24 PM in response to jpfromorangeville

If you drag that "Picture clipping.pictClipping" onto the Preview application, it should open.
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jpfromorangeville Dec 21, 2012 10:23 AM in response to roam
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Dec 21, 2012 10:23 AM in response to roam

I drag the Picture clipping.pictClipping onto the preview icon in the dock, also onto the preview icon
in the Applications window, but it doesn't open.
When I do Get info "Open with" , "Other" , & the drop down menu appears with "Recommended Applications", the "Preview" app. is not highlighted. When I change to "All Applications", the Preview app. becomes
highlighted but it doesn't open. A message appears saying: "it is not known if this application can open
Picture Clipping files".
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by BDAqua,

BDAqua Dec 21, 2012 1:11 PM in response to jpfromorangeville
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Dec 21, 2012 1:11 PM in response to jpfromorangeville

Might try GraphicConverter...

http://www.lemkesoft.com/

After a Copy in AW, in GC do a CMD+j to open that in a new window, where it can be saved with hundreds of options.
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roam

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Dec 19, 2012 7:30 PM in response to jpfromorangeville

Appleworks uses the .tiff format not .jpeg, which makes images very large.

You might have to do two things, certainly the first step.

1. Convert it to .jpg

From the open Appleworks document, drag each image out of the document onto the Desktop, or some other convenient location.

Open each image in Preview and Save As and select JPEG as the format.

This should reduce their size considerably.

2. If there are a lot of these images it might be necessary to send them in separate emails rather than all lumped in one. From my experience Apple Mail can choke trying to send just a few MB's of pictures, hence the suggestion you may need to break it up, or alternatively use a free web based mail client like Hotmail or Yahoo, but either way, you must reduce these images down to a managable size if emailing them is your intent.

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