Actually I have been saving everything as "rtf" as I find that in the long run, that is the least humbug.
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:03, Alvin Murphy wrote: > Greetings everyone: thanks to everyone for the help I have been > receiving. I am amazed at how active and helpful this group is and now > kicking myself for not having attended meetings. I have been teaching > myself Linux for the past year basically by reading books and trying > things out but my knowledge is fairly thin. Thank you, Warren for your > comments on open office: I will try to install it at/opt and see if I > can get it working, that is if I can recover from the mess I made last > night by trying to upgrade to Mandrake 8.2; more about that date or if I > get time. > > Again, Warren, you said there may be a way to get around the WordPerfect > print driver by printing to cups. If you have any specific suggestions, > I would appreciate them; the print dialog screen only offers three > choices: disk, hp (the path to my printer on SMB via lpr), and $PRINT. > I am fairly sure that the last option is the way to go but I do not know > how to make it work. When I try to print to it, I get an error message. > I cannot find any environment variable on my system with that name; > perhaps there needs to be an export command with the correct path to the > spooler or filter (not that I would know how to do that). Perhaps I > could bring my box to the next meeting whenever that is and you could > have a look. > > By the way, WordPerfect for Windows version 9 works very well inside my > Linux by using Win4Lin; I could just stay with that but I would like to > completely migrate to Linux. > > For me, Abiword has the most pleasant appearance, imports my files > fairly well, translates them over my lan as word documents, but I > really miss the quick- correct feature and a macro function. > > Star office and open office have the quick correct feature and macro > function but do not import WordPerfect files. Of course, there is a work > around by saving them as word files or .rtf, but that is humbug. By the > way, Josh Berkus, is working on WordPerfect filter and looking for > WordPerfect files to use. I will try to include his email address in > this note or another. > > I would like to try the WordPerfect 9 wine version but have not been > able to obtain a copy. I tried myself to install WordPerfect using wine > but only progressed to a certain point where something was missing. > > Thanks again, when and where is the next meeting.? > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
