important documents that have been written using ClarisWorks 4.0 and I want to make sure that everything will work fine with AppleWorks 6. Do the two programs use the same extension?
File extension is moot; it's the internal file format that counts. AppleWorks 6 and ClarisWorks DO NOT use the same file formats. Conversions will have to be done. :(
I thought someone told me once that Apple bought Claris hence the name AppleWorks
Claris was a software subsidiary of Apple, used to develop and publish application products such as MacWrite, MacPaint, and MacDraw for the Mac, and AppleWorks for the Apple II. Eventually there begat ClarisWorks, MacWrite II, MacWrite Pro, FileMaker, etc. In '98, the collective reasserted its influence: after a merge'n'purge, Claris became FileMaker Inc. (retaining that product), while ClarisWorks was absorbed into Apple proper, and renamed AppleWorks.
but some of these documents are so important that I can't take any chances.
Make backups. Create some Options by saving the files in several formats - plain text (word processing), SYLK (for spreadsheets), etc. Make backups. Did I mention you should make backups?
At 12:14 AM -0500 01/23/2005, Kevin O'Grady wrote:
I have experience between Clarisworks 4.0 and Appleworks 5, but not specifically CW 4.0 & AW 6.0. From what I know there should not be any difficulty converting between 4.0 -> 5.0, however, I'm not so sure about 4.0 -> 6.0.
This is something I hadn't really thought about of late, but had to deal with a lot when we first began using AppleWorks 6. It was so frustrating, we now publish our newsletters on a PC.
File translation is a BIG problem in AppleWorks 6. Apple has dramatically reduced the number of translators shipped with AppleWorks. Additionally, AppleWorks 6 does NOT support the XTND system of previous versions, so by extension, it does not support the older AppleWorks or DataViz translators.
As far as I can tell, by trying it with older files from my backups, AppleWorks 6 *WILL NOT* open MacWrite, MacWrite II, MacWrite Pro, or any Claris* format files. Furthermore, it is now missing the SYLK, WordPerfect, and older MicroSoft translators. About the only format AW 6 has in common with the older products is plain text - and even that has to be *tab* delimited because Apple does not support the "industry standard" comma separated value files. ...My notes say that Apple's official response to these issues is to recommend using an older version of AppleWorks to "step translate" the files, or to purchase the new DataViz package (?$100+?).
Our solution was to "step translate" what we could. The rest we transferred to a PC. We used AppleWorks 5 to read the older files and save them in AW 5 format. AW 6 then was able to read most of that.
My notes point out a serious spreadsheet bug to watch out for: AppleWorks 6 silently truncates formulas to 126 characters. This can create a lot of calculation errors.
Another issue is fonts. The AW 6 package comes with different fonts than did previous versions... My notes say this is a licensing issue; Apple told us to either scavenge the fonts from older software or to purchase them anew from places like Adobe.
HTH, - Dan.
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