Re: translating Apple2GS document

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

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
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