On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 19:36, Warren Togami wrote: > Yes the lack of WP is one of the greatest complaints at the moment. > Hmm... I just noticed that AbiWord has an importer for WordPerfect > 6/7/8. I don't know how good it is, so can someone please give it a try > and let us know?
The most recent versions of AbiWord do have a WordPerfect import filter, which seems to work about 50% of the time, for me. YMMV. Seems to work well when it doesn't exit with errors. Not sure if it is AbiWord or my files! > > processor dilemma. WP8 for Lin works but it is so wierd about printers; > > if I could find a way to get around the WP printer drivers so that I > > could print, at work, to various windows printers (that is what I do at > > home, but with limited success in WP), and if I could reliably save my > > WP files over the LAN as Word files (so that others can use and print > > them), I would probably stay with WP8. Anyway, thanks Funny, I have been able to get the WP drivers working even when the native linux print filters won't. Hmmmm. > > Unfortunately WP on Linux is a dead end. Corel bet the farm on Linux a > few years ago and lost nearly all of their money. Too much, too soon. > After a hefty Microsoft "investment", Corel completely dropped all of > their Linux projects. As a result Corel Linux OS was sold to another > company and is now marketed as Xandros, and they have completely dropped > support for WordPerfect for Linux. There is no future there, no new > drivers, no bug fixes. Ever... I check on the Corel WP8 for Linux newsgroup on occasion, and all the users are waiting for Corel to fix the blueberry import filters, but without much hope. Sometimes being a loyal user of proprietary software has its price. I did email Corel support a little while back, and was told to keep checking the web site for a patch. You're right, Warren, I'm afraid. -- **************************;~) * James (Andy) Stroble * Honolulu, HI * * http://www2.hawaii.edu/~stroble/ * "I really need to get some good, non-stupid news from our government soon or i will cry." by rhyax on Kuro5hin, on Sun Jan 27th, 2002 at 02:03:14 PM EST
