[melomac]

I was able to download and transfer the proposal document to a Mini vMac emulator, set the Finder's type and creator to those of a Microsoft Word 5 document i.e. respectively WDBN and MSWD, and finally open the document with Microsoft Word 5 for Mac to export it as a RTF document.

Here you have it: https://neko.melomac.net/tmp/proposal.rtf

I certainly agree opening a document from this Macintosh era should be, by far, easier than the process I detailed below, but this is how it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jgrahamc]

Thanks. Unfortunately, the images are all missing.

[melomac]

It is even more frustrating that the image are in the document, and Microsoft Word for Mac would still display them accurately.

And LibreOffice would display the images in the RTF document in a different size (a tiny block).

If my old Mac display would work, I could have been able to send the document over to CUPS via Netatalk, and make a PDF out of it. Unfortunately Mini vMac can't connect to that VM on the LAN...

Anyhow, it is scandalous that opening legacy documents became such a PITA.