PaperPort scans

[John Hill]

Re: PaperPort scans

Hi John,

Sorry to sound so ignorant, but I really do not understand what you are suggesting. Would you please try again in layman's language?

Thanks for offering your suggestion,
Frank

You have had a better suggestion from John Leggett, so if you can, go for it!

But to clarify: SheepShaver is an application that will create a virtual Classic Mac environment in which you can set up a (nearly) full System 9 with any applications that you might wish to run. It's very similar to running Parallels with Windows on a Mac - an emulation. Up to Leopard, Rosetta did even better than this, but unfortunately it was left behind when Snow Leopard appeared.

Setting up Windows with Boot Camp is NOT an emulation, BTW.

Basilisk will do the same for System 7.5.

[martha]

Re: [PaperPort scans] reading Appleworks on MacBook Pro?

You have had a better suggestion from John Leggett, so if you can, go for it!

But to clarify: SheepShaver is an application that will create a virtual Classic Mac environment in which you can set up a (nearly) full System 9 with any applications that you might wish to run. It's very similar to running Parallels with Windows on a Mac - an emulation. Up to Leopard, Rosetta did even better than this, but unfortunately it was left behind when Snow Leopard appeared.

Setting up Windows with Boot Camp is NOT an emulation, BTW.

Basilisk will do the same for System 7.5.

Sorry about commandeering the subject matter, but since John brought up using a system 9 on an OSX 10.x, I thought I could sneak in a question about Appleworks. I have some work that I did in Appleworks, and while I thought I had backed up everything in Mellel, it turns out that I did not. Is there some way for me to open the Appleworks articles and save them into something that my OSX 10.7.5 can read?

TIA for any suggestions and help!!!!

Martha

[ttl]

Re: [PaperPort scans] reading Appleworks on MacBook Pro?

Sorry about commandeering the subject matter, but since John brought up using a system 9 on an OSX 10.x, I thought I could sneak in a question about Appleworks. I have some work that I did in Appleworks, and while I thought I had backed up everything in Mellel, it turns out that I did not. Is there some way for me to open the Appleworks articles and save them into something that my OSX 10.7.5 can read?

TIA for any suggestions and help!!!!

Martha

If they're word processing documents, Pages can open them.

[martha]

Re: [PaperPort scans] reading Appleworks on MacBook Pro?

If they're word processing documents, Pages can open them.

Thanks, Tim, but I do not have Pages on my computer.

Warmly,

Martha

[Frank Zwolinski]

Re: PaperPort scans

Now that this thread has gone off the original topic, is there anyone who has experience in opening old PaperPort files on a mac running OS X 10.6.8. I have a few suggestions but so far nothing has worked.

Thanks,
Frank

[ttl]

Re: [PaperPort scans] reading Appleworks on MacBook Pro?

Thanks, Tim, but I do not have Pages on my computer.

Warmly,

Martha

You can also open AW WP files with TextEdit. The formatting is lost and there's a lot of garbage on the top and bottom of the file, but you can cut and paste the valid content into your word processor of choice.

[martha]

Re: [PaperPort scans] reading Appleworks on MacBook Pro?

You can also open AW WP files with TextEdit. The formatting is lost and there's a lot of garbage on the top and bottom of the file, but you can cut and paste the valid content into your word processor of choice.

Thanks, Tim! I will give that a try!

Martha