1. If one has to exchange documents (often) and want to keep the formating as good as possible one has at least to install the exact same printer driver as the creator (or target computer) and the same fonts. (The used printer driver information is embedded into the document in Word and others and can be discovered for ex. with a hex editor). Otherwise, the documents will be reformatted. Margins on a laser and for example a inkjet differ a lot as do font substitutes.
2. There are professional converters for text and spreadsheets for PC and Mac like "Conversion pro" which will also do batch processing. 3. "Designing" your own word processor or printer driver copy by patching it was really something special under the good old WordStar ;-) I still have a book "patching WordStar" from that time. greetings Markus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bronek Kozicki Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Way OT: File conversion problem Someone here confused Word with WordPerfect - these are entirely two different software products, from different vendors! Or actualy "were", because I believe WordPerfect has not had upgrades for a looong time. B. Quoting Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, Microsoft Word v1.0 was released first on Macintosh in 1985. > > Godfrey > > On Nov 29, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > Word obviously predates the Mac but I don't think it predates the > > Apple //. However, the most popular word processor on the early > > Apples was Quark's Word Juggler. In the early years, it required the > > installation of a special chip on the mother board, but it really > > worked great. I used it for six or seven years. I still wouldn't mind > > writing with it. It did everything I ever needed to do for manuscript > > production. > > Paul > > On Nov 29, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Bob W wrote: > > > >> Word pre-dates (I won't write 'predates'...) Apple doesn't it? I > >> think > >> the original version was developed for the Star. > >> > >> -- > >> Bob > >> > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>> Behalf Of Bob Shell > >>> Sent: 29 November 2006 21:12 > >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> Subject: Re: Way OT: File conversion problem > >>> > >>> Word is from Office X. I haven't a clue what version of WordPerfect > >> > >>> these people use, but probably latest version. > >>> > >>> Bob > >>> > >>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:58 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >>> > >>>> What version of Wordperfect, what version of Word? > >>>> > >>>> Bob Shell wrote: > >>>>> I'm on a Mac running OS 10.4.8 . Someone sent me some documents > >> I > >>>>> need to work with, but they sent them in WordPerfect > >>> format. I need > >>>>> to convert them to something I can read and search. It would > >> seem > >>>>> obvious that someone ought to make a WordPerfect to Word > >> converter > >>>>> for Mac, but so far I haven't turned one up in my Google > >> searches. > >>>>> Anyone here know of a way to do this? > >>>>> > >>>>> Bob > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
