On 2007-10-04 23:23:34, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 > and > > Approach files. > > I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read > Lotus > > WordPro documents. This is a killer for me as I've just started up > a new > > computer (my 5th) with Vista and can't seem to load my old > LotusSuite > > 9.8.1 > > on it. > > I just saw on your website that IBM is adopting much of OpenOffice > and > > coming out with it's Symphony. > > I would go to to IBM and see if they have a Lotus-OpenDocument > convertor. (SNIP)
Yesterday I downloaded the demo of Symphony - both for Linux and for windows - and this morning I installed them. The good news is that there is a filter there which can read several Lotus formats. The bad news is that while the windows version loaded and appears to run correctly on a WinXP machine, the Linux version had a serious problem and the install failed. The first try almost worked, and I was able to bring up one doc with it, but it died, and I ended up having to remove it and try to reinstall. But all Linux re-installs fail, so I can't pursue any comparison since I don't normally have access to that WinXP machine to compare (it was borrowed for the install). FWIW, the only big bug in this spin-off from OOo is that page numbers, page counts, and a few other field items disappear and the mechanism to recover them - if present - is fairly well hidden. But it was possible (winxp) to import a couple of lotus docs, save them as ".odt" and them work with them in OOo. ... so far, anyway ... -- william w. austin [email protected] "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
