Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-14 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/12/2014 03:52 PM, Cley Faye wrote: For my curiosity, if one of those file happen to not have any sensitive information, would it be possible to have a copy of it? I'm curious about this file format... It's supposed to be an editing format, but most information indicate that there are only

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-12 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
OK everyone, I received the USB floppy from China, today. The files are .sig which might be something like Printshop or other software that was out there in October 2005 when the files were made. There is a cover.sig, p1 - p13.sig, and a toc.sig file names. Right now I have them on my

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-12 Thread Cley Faye
2014-07-12 20:10 GMT+02:00 Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com: The files are .sig which might be something like Printshop or other software that was out there in October 2005 when the files were made. There is a cover.sig, p1 - p13.sig, and a toc.sig file names. Right now

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:10 12/07/2014 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:23:23 -0400, Tim Lungstrom a écrit : I have been asked to copy files off a floppy drive and convert the files to be able to work with the current tech. The files are .sig which might be something like Printshop or other

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-12 Thread Robert Funnell
A quick Google search indicates that your suggestion of PrintShop may be close to the mark. It seems that the files are probably image files and not word-processing files. Apparently there are image-conversion programmes available out there that can handle these files. On Sat, 12 Jul 2014,

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-12 Thread Cley Faye
For my curiosity, if one of those file happen to not have any sensitive information, would it be possible to have a copy of it? I'm curious about this file format... It's supposed to be an editing format, but most information indicate that there are only converters to flat image formats... --

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-02 Thread Tom Davies
; since I merely responded to the initial sender, am forwarding to the list. From: William W. Austin aire...@att.net Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing? To: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com Hello, Apologies

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-01 Thread anne-ology
This was sent mistakenly to me; since I merely responded to the initial sender, am forwarding to the list. From: William W. Austin aire...@att.net Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing? To: anne-ology

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-30 Thread anne-ology
LO 3.4 has never caused me any compatibility problems - yet. From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:23 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing? To: LibreO - Users Global users@global.libreoffice.org I

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Floppy drives were notoriously unstable and kept needing to be replaced or just left in the machine in their broken state. It's also kinda inevitable that people have ended up with files in formats that can't be read anymore. It's one of the main reasons for the need for a big push for

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2014-06-29 02:03, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:23:23 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : I would like to know which of the older versions of LO has the best ability to import really old word processor formats. I remember that

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-29 Thread rost52
I remember having read an information that after v3.6 the number of filters for older version got reduced. I therefore keep a copy of 3.6.7 normal and 3.6.5 portable. On 2014-06-28 22:23, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I would like to know which of the older versions of LO has the best

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-29 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:23:56 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : On 06/28/2014 10:09 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:03:59 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org a écrit : Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-29 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 06/29/2014 08:36 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:23:56 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : On 06/28/2014 10:09 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:03:59 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz

[libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I would like to know which of the older versions of LO has the best ability to import really old word processor formats. I remember that LO was reducing the number of import filters for those old file formats, but I may need one of them. I have been asked to copy files off a floppy drive

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:23:23 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : I would like to know which of the older versions of LO has the best ability to import really old word processor formats. I remember that LO was reducing the number of import

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:03:59 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org a écrit : Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:23:23 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : I would like to know which of the older versions of LO has the best

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Kracked_P_P---webmaster schrieb: I would like to know which of the older versions of LO has the best ability to import really old word processor formats. I remember that LO was reducing the number of import filters for those old file formats, but I may need one of them. The version 3

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread James Knott
On 06/28/2014 09:23 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: So, as soon as I get a working floppy drive working One thing to bear in mind is some of those old floppies might be unreadable. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 06/28/2014 04:06 PM, James Knott wrote: On 06/28/2014 09:23 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: So, as soon as I get a working floppy drive working One thing to bear in mind is some of those old floppies might be unreadable. It is the drive, since it does not read one that was stored

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-06-28 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 06/28/2014 10:09 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:03:59 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org a écrit : Hello Tim, Le Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:23:23 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : I would like to know which of