[PeterParker]

Hey,

like many people, I'd love to switch to Lion or Mountain Lion and I solved most problems I encountered so far. There is one remaining, however: I have many old AppleWorks documents, some created using AppleWorks 6, some in older versions. Apple officially states you can open AW 6 files with Pages, that may be true and good (although formatting is not always entirely alright). Documents from older AW versions are entirely unsupported.

There is one thing: Converting all to PDF, I thought, using "Print" > "Save as PDF", formatting is great, of course and it would be readable for many years to come; but again, I found no way to batch convert and doing it manually is stressful. I did create a 'GUI recording' with Automator already, so it can do 5 automatically, but it is slow. Isn't there a way to convert 'anything"'to "Save as PDF" for Mac OS X documents?
Any other ideas?

I googled and I found various forums entries, most dating back a few years; but I have this problem now... I would like to keep all these documents, and I don't really need them writable, readable would be enough. Conversion to Word would be okay, but I found no way to batch convert many (or even 5 or 10 which would be good for the start), and I sometimes found the formatting not entirely correct.

(I already thought about converting all older version documents using MacLink to AW 6 or something else, but apparently, MacLink is no longer available, too.)

I seem to be a bit out-of-date, gosh...

Thanks for any help!
Pete

[sandbag1]

 PeterParker, on 29 July 2012 - 05:47 AM, said:

Hey,

like many people, I'd love to switch to Lion or Mountain Lion and I solved most problems I encountered so far. There is one remaining, however: I have many old AppleWorks documents, some created using AppleWorks 6, some in older versions. Apple officially states you can open AW 6 files with Pages, that may be true and good (although formatting is not always entirely alright). Documents from older AW versions are entirely unsupported.

There is one thing: Converting all to PDF, I thought, using "Print" > "Save as PDF", formatting is great, of course and it would be readable for many years to come; but again, I found no way to batch convert and doing it manually is stressful. I did create a 'GUI recording' with Automator already, so it can do 5 automatically, but it is slow. Isn't there a way to convert 'anything"'to "Save as PDF" for Mac OS X documents?
Any other ideas?

I googled and I found various forums entries, most dating back a few years; but I have this problem now... I would like to keep all these documents, and I don't really need them writable, readable would be enough. Conversion to Word would be okay, but I found no way to batch convert many (or even 5 or 10 which would be good for the start), and I sometimes found the formatting not entirely correct.

(I already thought about converting all older version documents using MacLink to AW 6 or something else, but apparently, MacLink is no longer available, too.)

I seem to be a bit out-of-date, gosh...

Thanks for any help!
Pete

You could always use Get Information on any one of the documents you want to change to a PDF then using the File menu in the finder choose Open, then "use this application to open all documents like this one" to change them all.

[PeterParker]

 sandbag1, on 29 July 2012 - 12:05 PM, said:

You could always use Get Information on any one of the documents you want to change to a PDF then using the File menu in the finder choose Open, then "use this application to open all documents like this one" to change them all.

I'm sorry, but I really don't understand this. They are AppleWorks files, I need some sort of conversion... no?

This post has been edited by PeterParker: 29 July 2012 - 12:29 PM