I have a stylesheet in one FW doc that I wish to use in another.
I have no problem importing the stylesheet from one to the other but after doing so I cannot save the FW document.
Could not save blah.freeway because end of file. (-39:114:9671)
Anyone else had this with 5.6.2 on Snow Leopard - any suggestions?
David
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David, I just tried importing a stylesheet from another FW file and the FW doc saved without a problem. Not sure why you are getting the error. Sorry I’m not much help here.
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There are a couple of threads here of people who updated to the latest under Lion and are unable to save anything. The solution seems to be deleting all the com.softpress plists from your Preferences folder and restarting. Not sure if it’s related, but I thought it might be connected. Of course if you’re not using Lion, that’s not it.
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On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Helveticus wrote:
David, I just tried importing a stylesheet from another FW file and the FW doc saved without a problem. Not sure why you are getting the error. Sorry I’m not much help here.
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Marcel - are you using 5.6.2?
And no I am not on Lion yet - my other half has too much stuff (AppleWorks) - on here that she says she will make my life hell if she can’t use it anymore.
Not worth the grief!
I will bin the preferences and try again.
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Dave yes I’m using 5.6.2 and this machine is still using SnowLeopard
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This kind of message appeared a lot of times to me under the following circumstance:
I once had a USB Hub that sometimes disconnect by just the whiff of a fly. It self reconnected but the issue was, that the opened Freeway-Files lost the path and never got them back. This was very annoying cause the only chance to get the file back was to create a new folder, change the path to it in doc settings and (as far as I remember) I got it to run.
Well David - I know this is not helpful, but FW files sometimes behave a bit strange (although my issue was damaged hardware nothing to do with freeway itself).
Anyway - since buying a new drive, everything runs like a charm. But what to recommend you to solve your issue?
Check the chance of bundle all your stuff within a new folder /file combi?
Uahhh - I long thought if I should write this but let me take the chance here to wish you “Merry Christmas from Germany”.
Cheers
Thomas
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Thanks Thomas - A Merry Christmas to you.
I deleted the FW plist files and now can save after importing the stylesheet - though there appear to be other issues.
Anyway I can move on…
Thanks all
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And no I am not on Lion yet - my other half has too much stuff (AppleWorks)
Wow. That’s now a seriously old bit of software. If I were you I’d plan an exit strategy. Not from your other half - I mean from being held back by AppleWorks! 
A new Mac for you, for one, so you can keep up with new software developments. But also make sure all her data is in a more readily accessible format. I don’t know what other software can read AppleWords files these days. If your Mac died and had to be replaced that could be the end of all those documents!
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I don’t know what other software can read AppleWorks files these days. If your Mac died and had to be replaced that could be the end of all those documents!
I have been trying to encourage her to recreate in Pages but she is a teacher and has been creating teaching resources in Claris/Appleworks for ever. As a result she has amassed a bucketload of stuff and she would kill before giving it up.
If anyone knows of a bit of software that could convert them I would be eternally grateful. Then we can consider the move to Lion.
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Does Pages open AppleWorks files?
http://www.apple.com/support/appleworks/faq/
I personally binned Microsoft Works for iWorks for all devices.
David
On 25 Dec 2011, at 10:52, “DeltaDave” email@hidden wrote:
If anyone knows of a bit of software that could convert them I would be eternally grateful. Then we can consider the move to Lion
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Yes if they are word processong
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On Dec 25, 2011, at 3:32 AM, David Owen email@hidden wrote:
Does Pages open AppleWorks files?
http://www.apple.com/support/appleworks/faq/
I personally binned Microsoft Works for iWorks for all devices.
David
On 25 Dec 2011, at 10:52, “DeltaDave” email@hidden wrote:
If anyone knows of a bit of software that could convert them I would be eternally grateful. Then we can consider the move to Lion
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Does Pages open AppleWorks files?
let peter handle this one ;
caution… rant:
Applworks may be old, but … it is Hella FAST. it is not "Office " , like i-work is. so, you can get more done, in less time, with much less grief.
sure, the spreadsheet sometimes changes fonts all by itself (yup… it certainly does), but on the other hand, the writing part of the program does not annoyingly renumber your lists without permission. and you can draw basic stuff in a heartbeat.
back “in the day” Clarisworks came with a BOOK, and by working your way thru the book, you would gain a deep and lasting understanding of how shxt worked. I-work = No Book. thusly, a lack of understanding. end result is a Lot more features, most of which you can’t figure out how to turn off.
Appleworks requires the Rosetta system feature to run on intel units. this means Snow Leopard is the end of the line. but. SN has quite a few more years of remaining viability.
i own and operate both Appleworks and I-Work. they are different animals. both are good, both do similar things. But applworks has charm, wit, and soul, while i-work … runs like it’s ported over from DOS
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Unfortunately most of her stuff is done in Appleworks Drawing documents which Pages cannot open/convert - it will only convert Word Processing docs.
Get me something that will open them and I will be happy.
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Get me something that will open them and I will be happy.
that’s rather the conditional requirement for xmas day happyness … but … we shall try. : )
this will not work to the point of “perfection”, in that it will not bring over total graphic functionality with it, BUT it will drag over your graphics (at least it transports mine, which are mostly lines and patterns) from cwk files.
on my end, they open every time, and then i expand or manipulate it to scape off the included.Grab caca. (metrics tab in the Inspector makes it big/smaller)
so that’s the peter way if stuck wih hung-up cwk files and need’n to shove them into pages. it is not perfect, but… it is “free”.
one could probably make the procedure a macro if desperate (or bored).
i have extensively toyed with all the ‘Save As’ Appleworks options to not-much-satisfaction or acceptable smooth graphics. this Grab routine is my best redneck solution. i own Illustrator. Grab/Pages works better.
cheers,
v.
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OK for the graphics but it doesn’t give me editable text!
I would probably be as well to Print to PDF and import that into Pages.
And of course you would still need a working version of AppleWorks.
I really need an app than can open/import/convert .cwk files on Lion.
D
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I’m having difficulty understanding how to import a stylesheet from another FW file. I use the cogwheel at the foot of the Edit Styles dialog and look for .css files in another Site Folder. But when I click import the styles aren’t there, just a list of items from the page?
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You are not looking for .css files - just the other FW doc.
Select the FW doc that you want to import the styles from.
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That works! Not intuitive and probably not contained in any Freeway manual. But thanks for the prompt response.
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