images and pages

imac 10.7.3

You have been so helpful with my other questions. here's another.

Lion does not do appleworks but i have for a long time. i got pages so i could open my appleworks docs. and also to do collages. all good so far.
today i found some images i'd put in appleworks/draw. when i clicked open with/ pages,
the message i got was this is not a text doc.
now inside of pages there are things that look like they could open my appleworks images.
but i can't figure out how to do that.

anybody?

Appleworks drawings are vector drawings, so Pages doesn't know how to handle that. Sadly, there aren't many programs that convert AppleWorks drawings correctly, and those that do aren't cheap.

The best method involves using AppleWorks on Snow Leopard to copy and paste the drawing into an AppleWorks WP document -- Pages can use that and the drawing is preserved perfectly.

If that's not available to you, you'll need to use EazyDraw ($95) or Intaglio ($89) to convert the files.

appleworks etc

I was asking about photo collages, not drawings. you can work with photos in appleworks word processing, but if you select drawing, you get to work in the whole space- 81/2 x 11.
i never did .drawings.

on the plus side- this iMac came with lion preinstalled- do you mean i can put in snow leopard also? i still have the disk

on the plus side- this iMac came with lion preinstalled- do you mean i can put in snow leopard also? i still have the disk

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If your iMac came pre-installed with Lion it can not run Snow Leopard.