I just tried several documents. Saving from Amipro as *.doc & OO won't open them at all. Saved a document with lots of tables as *.rtf, OO will open it but the tables are a mess. A lot of cells span multiple columns in the original *.sam, but not in OO. Might be time to RTFM.
Amanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] AmiPro *.sam to OpenOffice http://consultingtimes.com/SOConversions.html "Incredible as it may sound, not everyone uses Microsoft Office. In particular, there are millions of loyal WordPerfect Office users,and a lesser number of WordPro (n�e AmiPro) fans. Unfortunately, StarOffice has almost no support for WordPerfect Office conversions. There are no export filters. The only import filters are for WordPerfect (no Quattro Pro or Presentations), the latest of which is for WordPerfect 7 documents. Zero for WordPro. AmiPro docs can be imported. None of the miscellaneous text converters are available in StarOffice for Linux. According to Xavier Basora, over at Penguinista.org, these belong to Word4Word and there's a prohibition against taking them to a different platform." Also: What else does amipro save as? Rich Text Format will import well as will most .doc styles. Maybe you could write an amipro macro to save as .doc or .rtf and then load them into star office. This is hearsay from an IBM Roadshow recently so check the facts: The other good news is that IBM donated the file format definitions for LOTUS products to Open Office to ensure that you can read/write documents in OO. Not sure how far off that is from implementation though. >From Star Office doco: "Importing is normally not problematic. Even editing information and controls are imported (and exported) so that StarOffice recognizes inserted or deleted text in Word documents as well as font attributes that have been modified. This information can also be given different coloring for each author. Furthermore, information about the time of such changes is also included. When graphic text boxes and labels are imported from templates, most of the attributes are also imported as hard paragraph and drawing attributes. However, some of the attributes may be lost during the import procedure. It is also possible to import and export RTF files. This file format can be used to exchange formatted texts across various applications and platforms. In this way, may formats read by most programs will be transferred without a problem. The clipboard uses RTF format when you insert part of a spreadsheet from StarOffice Calc via DDE into StarOffice Writer." HTH Stu On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 10:14, Amanda Wynne wrote: > Anybody got any idea how to convert a heap of documents from AmiPro 3.2 (1994) into something that Open Office can read? > > Amanda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
