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From: M-M on 6 Jun 2010 13:32 In article <1jjo123.aso3jd11i3vfeN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > I've seen AppleWorks 6.2.9 running on quite a few Macs, including my > own, under Snow Leopard without the performance issues you're seeing. We > should be able to do some troubleshooting and get AW running much better > on your Mac. Same here. However changing fonts can be unusably slow if you have the fonts displayed in their typestyle. It can take several minutes to scroll down to "Times" However if you turn it off the menu scrolls very fast. Preferences-> General-> deselect "Font Menu in Actual Fonts" -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com
From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 14:19 In article <1jjo123.aso3jd11i3vfeN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > I know my WP(AppleWorks 6) is archaic, but I've been using first > > ClarisWorks, then AppleWorks for over a decade and not only are all my > > documents in AW, but I don't really have to think about using it, just > > about content. However, the "up"grade to SabreTooth(OS 10.6.3, known by > > others as SnowLeopard) has slowed poor AW down to a snail's pace in > > regard to even so basic a thing as changing fonts. > > I've seen AppleWorks 6.2.9 running on quite a few Macs, including my > own, under Snow Leopard without the performance issues you're seeing. We > should be able to do some troubleshooting and get AW running much better > on your Mac. > > To start, which Mac is it, with how much RAM? In any case, I'd recommend > in general that you download and run Yasu or one of several similar > utilities. MacBook Pro Intel with 2 gb RAM. > > http://jimmitchell.org/yasu/ > > Turn on the options to clear font caches along with the others. See if > this alone helps, and report back either way. I'd forgotten I had it. Will do. May be a while as I can't do that(I see it's going to make me restart) at the moment because I have to run off for a while. I have it sitting open on my desktop, however. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 14:21 In article <nospam.m-m-AEC01A.13325506062010(a)cpe-76-190-186-198.neo.res.rr.com>, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > In article <1jjo123.aso3jd11i3vfeN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, > mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > > > I've seen AppleWorks 6.2.9 running on quite a few Macs, including my > > own, under Snow Leopard without the performance issues you're seeing. We > > should be able to do some troubleshooting and get AW running much better > > on your Mac. > > > Same here. However changing fonts can be unusably slow if you have the > fonts displayed in their typestyle. It can take several minutes to > scroll down to "Times" > > However if you turn it off the menu scrolls very fast. Preferences-> > General-> deselect "Font Menu in Actual Fonts" One of idiosyncrasies it that I REALLY prefer WYSIWYG fonts 8-( I can try that, though. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 14:22 In article <jollyroger-D1BA2F.11415006062010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article > <drache-6DF960.09532006062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa > mple.com>, > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > I know my WP(AppleWorks 6) is archaic, but I've been using first > > ClarisWorks, then AppleWorks for over a decade and not only are all my > > documents in AW, but I don't really have to think about using it, just > > about content. However, the "up"grade to SabreTooth(OS 10.6.3, known by > > others as SnowLeopard) has slowed poor AW down to a snail's pace in > > regard to even so basic a thing as changing fonts. > > > > I would like to know whether there is something that would > > behave(WYSIWYG fonts, keyboard shortcuts, etc.) as much like what used > > to be ClarisWorks or AW(I considered AW a downgrade, too) without > > costing the earth. I know about iWorks, which comes full of to me > > useless extras and is not cheap. > > > > Is there something out there I don't know about that's moderately > > priced, works something like the above, and will open my documents > > without destroying them? > > > > OpenOffice and TextEdit both destroy my documents because they reject > > the fonts, apparently. I get garbage with both. > > > > I can live with the snail's pace for a while, but it's going to irritate > > me more and more with time. > > > > I am, however, having great fun getting acquainted with the iPad . > > Have you tried out Bean (free), to see if it's suitable for you?: > > <http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html> I'll check it out, thanks. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 14:25
In article <060620100818093269%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid>, sbt <dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote: > In article > <drache-6DF960.09532006062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa > mple.com>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > I know my WP(AppleWorks 6) is archaic, but I've been using first > > ClarisWorks, then AppleWorks for over a decade and not only are all my > > documents in AW, but I don't really have to think about using it, just > > about content. However, the "up"grade to SabreTooth(OS 10.6.3, known by > > others as SnowLeopard) has slowed poor AW down to a snail's pace in > > regard to even so basic a thing as changing fonts. > > > > I would like to know whether there is something that would > > behave(WYSIWYG fonts, keyboard shortcuts, etc.) as much like what used > > to be ClarisWorks or AW(I considered AW a downgrade, too) without > > costing the earth. I know about iWorks, which comes full of to me > > useless extras and is not cheap. > > > > Is there something out there I don't know about that's moderately > > priced, works something like the above, and will open my documents > > without destroying them? > > > > OpenOffice and TextEdit both destroy my documents because they reject > > the fonts, apparently. I get garbage with both. > > > > I can live with the snail's pace for a while, but it's going to irritate > > me more and more with time. > > > > I am, however, having great fun getting acquainted with the iPad . > > Well, I would recommend taking another look at iWork (Pages is the word > processing/page layout program in it). Well I am quite willing to agree > that the UI change is somewhat daunting to someone coming from > AppleWorks, a lot of what looks like useless cruft is not as it > appears. Further, it is the only WP app of which I'm aware that does a > good job of opening AppleWorks 6 documents. That some of the > engineering staff are alumni of the AppleWorks team and, as yet another > Apple product, the source code is available to them should render this > migration path almost expected. > > Frankly, I don't use iWork as much as I would like. Work requires MS > Word and Excel, so I spend far more time with those applications. > However, I don't consider $79 (retail) as "not cheap" for software of > this capability -- it's only $43 currently at Amazon.com. > > Finally, if you're having fun with the iPad, the document compatibility > between the Mac version and the iPad version of Pages is pretty darn > good (font issues are the most common annoyance, since there are so > many fewer fonts available on the iPad). Note taken. I'll do that as well. I know I can try it free for a while and haven't gotten around to it. Back-compatibility is very important to me. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo |