The size of a ClarisWorks painting is determined by the amount of memory available to the program. Weirdly enough, when you first install version 2 or 3, the program’s default memory allotment isn’t even enough for you to create a letter-sized painting. (When you open a paint document, ClarisWorks beeps and displays a message letting you know that you’ll get only a shrunken painting area because of the memory shortage.) Use the Get Info command (as directed in Chapter 9) to increase the ClarisWorks memory size. We found that ClarisWorks 2.0 needs a memory size of 1600K to open a full-page painting document without complaining.
Fortunately, ClarisWorks 4 uses a virtual-memory scheme — using your hard drive as temporary memory, just as Photoshop does — which gets you around the problem.
