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Re: Appleworks.


  • Subject: Re: Appleworks.
  • From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:10:06 +0100

This from Ruby Madraswala - dated 20/10/04 1ยท57 pm:

> I have bunch of scripts which works fine with TextEdit files. Using it for a
> year now. We are moving our users from OS 9 to OSX, and most are opting to use
> Appleworks as their word processor. The scripts I have, does not work with the
> Appleworks files.


If you can't convice your users to choose a different word processor, you
may have to consider adapting your TextEdit scripts so that they work with
AppleWorks documents. AW can handle text files, albeit awkwardly, but
TextEdit can't open AW word processing documents - at least not without
displaying a heap of garbage before and after the text content of the file.
There's no perfect solution, sadly, that embraces both types of document.

It's remiss of Apple, when they have beavered away so diligently to make
TextEdit Microsoft Word-friendly, not to have extended the same courtesy to
AppleWorks. However moribund, it _is_ the default word processor for most
new Mac users.



Nick
pp Mr Tea

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