Scrapbook File Question

I have about 100 panes of short text in my Scrapbook. I know that I can print each pane separately or copy/paste each pane individually in to a word processor until all panes are in one document. However, is there a way to print all of the panes sequentially or to easily transfer all the panes into a word processor document?

 Cheers, Tom

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Posted on Dec 23, 2006 8:25 AM

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Dec 23, 2006 2:37 PM in response to Texas Mac Man

Hi, Tom. The Scrapbook is a funny place to be saving text. Scrapbook pages are saved as graphics, not words. In effect what you're saving is a bitmap that represents the appearance of the text, rather than the characters that convey its meaning. And what's saved is saved in the resource fork of the Scrapbook File, not in its more readily-accessible (but empty) data fork. That being the case, no application that extracts the text characters from "any file", such as Word, BBEdit or TextWrangler, can pull out the content of your text panes and save or print it all as a text file or word processing document.

The Scrapbook's primitive design goes all the way back to the beginning of the Mac OS. On its face it hasn't changed much, if at all, since 1984. Your best bet is probably just to place the pages from your Scrapbook one at a time, one after another, in a word processing document, then save that document for printing.

There are (and have been since about 1985) many more flexible and feature-rich little scrapbook-type apps that could be used instead of Apple's Scrapbook to store your collection of graphic snippets. Some of those little apps and desk accessories must still be kicking around on the many Mac classic software download sites, which I know you're well aware of. I don't use such a program myself, or I'd be happy to suggest one to you.

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