Re: [PLUG] AbiWord 1.0.1 Released

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Greg Lopp:

> nope.  I was going to suggest that myself, but when I went to
> test OpenOffice 1.0, it quietly ignored attempts to open the only
> WPD I had to check against.


OpenOffice is still working on filters for WordPefect files, and a word 
of warning, there are at least three common formats that use WPD as a 
suffix, WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1, and the 6/7/8/9/ format.    What was 
equally ironic was that the Windows version of StarOffice 5.2 opened WPD 
files but the Linux version didn't, so it's been quite some time since 
Star and now the folks at OpenOffice.org have had notice of the problem.
Novell, and WordPerfect before also made no secret of the format 
necessary to deal with the forms and anyone who wanted could have 
written a filter as at least one source did for microsoft.  SGML and XML 
are better formats for openness and fortunately finally XML seems to be 
catching on.

One other point if you're desperate, the WP8 linux version which was 
available for download free was quite able to open and deal with any 
known WPD format, and also export to some other format.  It's probably 
still floating around on some servers, and Corel still allows copies to 
be registered.  Unfortunately it requires libc5 and other now outdated 
libraries.




______________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group       -      http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  -  http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug