I've got a new MacBook, and now I've got the daunting task of converting and moving my data from my old Mac to my MacBook. I have at least a few hundred AppleWorks word processing documents and a handful or two of Pages documents. Poor, neglected AppleWorks is dead, and after the demise of its file format, I don't think I'll ever trust Apple with another proprietary word processing file format again.
I've decided to convert most of these old documents to PDF and RTF format as appropriate. I also want to preserve the creation date of the original file, as the last line of the document or a footer. But, doing this manually with every file is quite an enormous, tedious and repetitive task, and avoiding that kind of thing is what computers are for, right?
My only requirements:
- Add the creation date of the original file to a new last line in the document, or to a new footer.
- Then convert to PDF or RTF, as per user input. (RTF and PDF converters can be separate scripts of course).
Anyone have a good lead on this?
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