----- Original Message -----
From: "William W. Austin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0
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 ..."
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