I didn't see the earlier posts so not sure what exactly the question
was, but I have AppleWorks 6 and it can save to .rtf which can then be
opened in LO. My version also uses MacLinkPlus (a library of file
converters) to save to M$Word format. Note that I haven't installed
MacLinkPlus separately so wonder if it's packaged with AppleWorks 6.
Can't any docs be saved that way and re-opened in LO or just about
anything else? With a quick test on an AW text document fomatted to
print envelopes, the conversion worked quite well, keeping page settings
intact.
--
Carl Paulsen
On 5/24/13 3:33 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Errr, having said all that i couldn't open any of the test files sent off-list
(at least not in Ubuntu even after changing from utf8 to Apple encoding) so i
think it probably IS important to clear some space and install the light-weight
Abiword for word-processing. If you really need a spreadsheet program (on
holiday??) then Gnumeric is the spreadsheet program that goes with it.
However, how many long documents are you likely to write on holiday? It might
still be worth sticking with what you have and then copy&paste those letters
and things into LibreOffice when you get back.
Regards from
Tom :)
________________________________
From: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: McBride <dc...@xtra.co.nz>; "users@global.libreoffice.org"
<users@global.libreoffice.org>
Sent: Friday, 24 May 2013, 8:25
Subject: Re: appleworks tests
Hi :)
If you need to clear a bit of space then try the standard
1. Empty the trash can in your emailing system. With more than 1 account you
might need to do each one separately
2. In your web-browser (safari?) empty all the temp files, caches, password
stores, cookies err anything like that if you can find out how to easily
3. Uninstall any programs/games you don't enjoy or use anymore
4. Empty your OSes temp files and stuff if you can find out how to easily
5. Empty the rubbish bin
You might be amazed how often people have several Gigabytes of stuff in their
trash cans and are completely unaware that the stuff in there is still easy to
recover. In your case it probably wont create enough room to install
LibreOffice and even if it does it's still better to leave that until after
your holiday so that you have room for a photo or 2.
If you are really keen to move away from those older word-processors then you
might like to use AbiWord temporarily. It's very light but still quite
powerful although their Mac version is a little old now
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11511/abiword
http://www.abisource.com/download/
http://abiword.en.softonic.com/mac
I found it awkward because last time i used it i could not get it to use MS
formats by default. Nowadays using ODF is less problematic because so many
more people can read/write it. So, Abiword is probably a lot easier now as
it's default formats are the ones LibreOffice uses by default too.
However, i think i would keep using the word-processors you are using at the
moment and leave all this until you get back.
Regards from
Tom :)
________________________________
From: McBride <dc...@xtra.co.nz>
To: laurent alonso <alonso.laur...@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>; Alexander Thurgood
<alex.thurg...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013, 23:39
Subject: appleworks tests
Thanks to all for looking into my issue so carefully.
Actually I don't have libre office, my enquiry was to make sure I can
one way or other convert my appleworks.
Got an old Mac OS x 10.5.8 and was going to get an airbook or so to go
overseas,
but if i can't convert my files, it won't be a holiday
anymore...
I'll have to change it one day though..I can't just download
libreoffice for testing as I don't have much more space on my old Mac...
Here are some tests if you like:
Thanks. Turquoisegrece
On May 24, 2013, at 2:09 AM, laurent alonso wrote:
Hello,
a quick answer as I just see your emails ...
Le 22 mai 2013 à 10:25, McBride a écrit :
My question was Can libre office read pages/appleworks/
clarissworks? Thanks. Turquoisegrece
In fact, in some near future,
a filter for Appleworks/Clarisworks text (word processing) files
might be included in LibreOffice
based on libmwaw ( http://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/wiki/Home/ ),
see for instance http://docs.libreoffice.org/ .
It will not be perfect but it may retrieve the text, most graphics,
tables, text-boxes, basic layout, ... .
For Pages and for other kinds of Appleworks/Clarisworks documents
(spreadsheet, database, ...), I do not know.
Note:
if you have a Mac with OSX >= 10.6, you can find in
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/files/
a compiled version
of libmwaw and mwaw2odt with a <<crude>> AppleScript interface:
mwawOSX.zip, it takes a supported format file
( and so Appleworks/ClarisWorks files ) and converts it in a .odt
files ... Let me know if you try it and find some
bugs...
--
Amicalement,
Laurent.
--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
