Appleworks drawings after Lion

Appleworks drawings after Lion

Appleworks does not (& will not) run under Lion

There are many solutions to many of the document types but...
There are many postings saying that the only real solution for Appleworks drawings is to buy EazyDraw

I want to offer a possible workaround - using Keynote
(N.B. this relies on doing something BEFORE) you migrate to Lion

1) Using Appleworks, make a new presentation and paste some of your Appleworks drawings in, one drawing to a slide
2) Now save the presentation and then open it in Keynote

Hey Presto, your diagrams are all there and you can ungroup them and edit them (if you know how to use Keynote, that is)

Problems?

I found that Keynote undersizes the text boxes so they need stretching to the right to stop the word wrap

I found that my arcs (quarter circles for the most part) had gained "radii" making them look like segments of a circle. (Hence the previous post on how to draw arcs in Keynote)