Actually, using SheepShaver (which is no different than Apple's Classic environment and in some ways better), I can easily do all of that under Snow Leopard, probably faster than on your G5. :beige:... Let's see you do THAT Snow Leopard...
I'm not entirely sure why you had to shut down all applications in OS X. What did that accomplish since you were using Classic exclusively?
FYI, I can also print to a post script file using MacWrite on my 128K Mac, transfer the file directly into Snow Leopard using MacTerminal and open it with Preview, perfectly formatted as it appeared on the 128K, then save as a PDF.