Re: translating Apple2GS document

[Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com>]

David Empson wrote:
> 
> Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > @ko.pvt.k12.ct.us wrote:
> > >
> > > I would like to translate a lengthy document I prepared in Apple2GS to
> > > Microsoft word. The problem is that the document is saved in appleworks
> > > GS page layout format--which my translators cannot recognize. I have
> > > tried selecting text from the format, copying it to new text -- but the
> > > computer freezes up at the request.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > You're better off getting ClarisWorks. It does a perfect translation
> > with AppleWorks GS documents.
> 
> Not quite.  It does a perfect translation of AppleWorks GS WORD
> PROCESSOR documents.  It cannot handle any of the other document types
> supported by AppleWorks.
> 
> (There is no program other than AppleWorks GS itself that can handle any
> of the non-WP AWGS files.)
> 
> Pat - the only useful suggestion I can make is to use AppleWorks GS to
> export the components of the document into some more translatable
> format, e.g. back into an AppleWorks GS Word Processor document, or a
> plain text file.
> 
> I'd suggest throwing out all formatting and graphics, but if you really
> need to keep the graphics you could copy them to the graphics module,
> then export them in "Apple Preferred" graphics format.  This can be
> processed by most graphical translation utilities on the IIgs, and some
> on the Macintosh.
> 
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
OOPS! I must have read the post too fast. You are correct, I myself was
unable to translate a page layout file. I wound up converting the pics
to GIF format and using Graphics Converter to get them into Quark
Express to re-create the document.

This goes to show how far behind I am in messages. My reasearch is done,
and I have SOME spare time. 
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