AppleWorks 6 & page setup

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

After last night's success I opened AppleWorks and put in my 
preferences.  Bad move - Page Setup failed.  By a process of 
elimination I found the troublesome preference was Fractional 
Character Widths.  If I open one of my older documents in AppleWorks, 
went to preferences, turn off Fractional Character Widths, click Make 
Default and OK then all is well.
This is strange because I recall in earlier forums about pre-AWKs 
6.2 that turning on Fractional Character Widths resolved a margins 
problem.  I never had the problem on the power PC, but it is 
certainly there with intel with the opposite solution.

Merv


At 8:30 PM +0800 7/10/08, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
I think the problem identified below might have started when I 
updated to 10.5.5 in mid-September.
Repairing permissions and removing com.apple.appleworks.plist from 
the Users Library Preference folder was of no avail.
However, tonight I repeated the procedure but in addition removed 
the contents of the AppleWorks folder from the same Preference 
folder.  Restarted, launched AppleWorks and Page Setup now works.

Merv


At 11:17 AM +0800 6/10/08, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:

Running an intel iMac on 10.5.5
I can't remember when the problem with AppleWorks 6.2.9 started on 
the iMac but here it is:  I opened an existing document and then 
selected Page Setup.  Made my choice and clicked OK.  The contents 
of the document seemed to slip to the left and leave me with a dark 
grey page.  At the time I was using an OKIPage 8 printer that is on 
my wife's iBook G4 on 10.4.11 power PC.  There is no driver for the 
OKI on intel.  Assuming this was the problem I tried the same 
procedure for the Epson Stylus C61 which has a driver on my 
computer and is connected to my computer.  Same result.
Thinking the existing document might be corrupted in some way I 
tried a new document but got the same result.

Suggestions appreciated.
Merv


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AppleWorks 6 & page setup

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

I think the problem identified below might have started when I 
updated to 10.5.5 in mid-September.
Repairing permissions and removing com.apple.appleworks.plist from 
the Users Library Preference folder was of no avail.
However, tonight I repeated the procedure but in addition removed the 
contents of the AppleWorks folder from the same Preference folder. 
Restarted, launched AppleWorks and Page Setup now works.

Merv


At 11:17 AM +0800 6/10/08, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:

Running an intel iMac on 10.5.5
I can't remember when the problem with AppleWorks 6.2.9 started on 
the iMac but here it is:  I opened an existing document and then 
selected Page Setup.  Made my choice and clicked OK.  The contents 
of the document seemed to slip to the left and leave me with a dark 
grey page.  At the time I was using an OKIPage 8 printer that is on 
my wife's iBook G4 on 10.4.11 power PC.  There is no driver for the 
OKI on intel.  Assuming this was the problem I tried the same 
procedure for the Epson Stylus C61 which has a driver on my computer 
and is connected to my computer.  Same result.
Thinking the existing document might be corrupted in some way I 
tried a new document but got the same result.

Suggestions appreciated.
Merv


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AppleWorks 6 & page setup

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Running an intel iMac on 10.5.5
I can't remember when the problem with AppleWorks 6.2.9 started on 
the iMac but here it is:  I opened an existing document and then 
selected Page Setup.  Made my choice and clicked OK.  The contents of 
the document seemed to slip to the left and leave me with a dark grey 
page.  At the time I was using an OKIPage 8 printer that is on my 
wife's iBook G4 on 10.4.11 power PC.  There is no driver for the OKI 
on intel.  Assuming this was the problem I tried the same procedure 
for the Epson Stylus C61 which has a driver on my computer and is 
connected to my computer.  Same result.
Thinking the existing document might be corrupted in some way I tried 
a new document but got the same result.

Suggestions appreciated.
Merv
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also believe in order to see."


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