{"id":2287,"date":"2019-08-27T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:28:40","slug":"how-to-convert-all-your-old-appleworks-and-clarisworks-documents-to-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/programming\/how-to-convert-all-your-old-appleworks-and-clarisworks-documents-to-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"How to convert all your old AppleWorks and ClarisWorks documents to PDF?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/appleworks-01-100644961-large-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/appleworks-01-100644961-large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/appleworks-01-100644961-large.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently someone asked me if I could help him open old documents on his Mac. Those documents were made in 1997 with ClarisWorks (ClarisWorks is de predecessor of AppleWorks) and can&#8217;t be opened with any version of Pages (not even the oldest iWork version that runs on Intel Macs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, there is still a way to open these documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"howtoopenoldappleworksandclarisworksdocuments\">How to open old AppleWorks and ClarisWorks documents?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you actually open old <code>.cwk<\/code> files on your new Mac? AppleWorks will surely not work, because it requires a PPC Mac or Rosetta Code, which doesn&#8217;t ship anymore for ages.\nLuckily you can open any old AppleWorks and ClarisWorks file with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\">LibreOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"convertingalltheoldcwkdocumentsonyourmactopdf\">Converting all the old <code>.cwk<\/code> documents on your Mac to PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But it is very inconvenient to do this by hand for all the old documents on your Mac.\nThat is why I programmed a small Python script which converts all the <code>.cwk<\/code> suffixed documents in a folder (or any of its subfolders) to PDF using LibreOffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So how to use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install LibreOffice first in the <code>\/Applications<\/code> folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/DenBeke\/CWK-To-PDF\/releases\/download\/v0.1\/cwk_to_pdf.py\">Download<\/a> my <code>cwk_to_pdf.py<\/code> script from Github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then open the <em>Terminal<\/em> application on your Mac and execute the script while passing a the folder with the <code>.cwk<\/code> files to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ python cwk_to_pdf.py \/some\/folder\/with\/cwk\/files\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know how to navigate in the Terminal or work with relative directories in the Terminal, you can simplify the process by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Open the Terminal application<\/li><li>Type <code>python<\/code><\/li><li>Type a space<\/li><li>Drag and drop the <code>cwk_to_pdf.py<\/code> file in the terminal<\/li><li>Type another space<\/li><li>Drag and drop the folder you want to run the script on in the terminal<\/li><li>Hit enter<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>While executing, the <code>cwk_to_pdf.py<\/code> script will go through all files and subfolders in the specified directory, and will convert all files ending with <code>.cwk<\/code> to PDF.\nIt will save those files in the the same directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t forget to backup your files before running scripts like this! (And in fact you should always backup, not only when you run stuff!!!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently someone asked me if I could help him open old documents on his Mac. Those documents were made in 1997 with ClarisWorks (ClarisWorks is de predecessor of AppleWorks) and can&#8217;t be opened with any version of Pages (not even the oldest iWork version that runs on Intel Macs). 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