On Tuesday 12 November 2002 08:28 am, SI Reasoning wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:16 am, scott chevalley wrote: > > Philip Webb wrote: > > >021111 Brent Hasty wrote: > > >>The office network I manage has several useres who were word perfect > > >> users, and have a large resource of *.wpd documents. We researched > > >> into staroffice and what we found is that it advertised being able to > > >> import *.wpd files, ecclent. We then placed our order for mdk 9 for > > >> upgrade purposes and because it had star office bundled with it. > > >>Well I got the staroffice rpms installed and tried opening a > > >> wordperfect document, well nothing :-( > > >>I then checked the documentation, and tried a custom install for the > > >> purpose of selecting the filters I wanted installed. Unfortunately it > > >> seems the advertised *.wpd filter was not included. > > > > > >just a workaround: can't you copy .wpd -> .doc -> .sxw ? > > > > just a thought... current version of Abiword read .wpd files. I'm not > > sure how good it does, but it does support it. perhaps, at the very > > least, open them in Abiword and save them out at RTF to open in star > > office... just a thought... I will agree hear, they are whining bad enough at having to learn a new word prosessor with more features than thier wp8 annyway. waaa the icons have different colors I am lost... I have obtained libwpd and am working on compiling it on my system and integrating it into OO, I will probably also give abiword a try to see jsut how well it does. We are trying to standardize our office suite on OO or SO, due to thier being avaliable for a wider variety of operating systems, and the free avaliability of OO means our documents are portable to customers outside of our office without requiring them to go out and pirate or purchase a $400 office suite, like MS or Corel, rather they can simply download OO. We have a minidisk buisness card, and on it we include OO for our customers convienience.
Thanks for the advice all, I lookforward to in time the improvement of Mandrake, and associated apps and thier ability to import and convert WP documents into a more open and standard format. > > The greater question is.... did StarOffice come with the .wpd filters and > if not how does one get them? It is challenging in an office situation to > have to bounce between software designed to do the same thing. The > resistance and whining factors increase exponentially > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE90SwaQ3BM1ElJCVIRAomPAJ0WBtYM3E1cFpezoCTMkigPPxzT6gCbBIbv > xSr2EdwX/tSMMzVh7wHLJRg= > =bxas > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
