I'm using 1.0.
Save to PDF sounds great. My boss is gonna love it.
Using the convertor pack for MS and doing a double conversion, from *.sam to
MS *.doc, then opening that with OO gives pretty reasonable results.

Amanda


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Foskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] AmiPro *.sam to OpenOffice


> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:32, Amanda Wynne wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Which version of OOo   1.0.1 is the latest there have been some fixes
> but there are still some issues with tables especially with figures. The
> next release is even better with save to PDF.
>
> There is a very active group creating a Word Perfect import filter right
> now.  Someone who was really keen for WP conversion is funding a
> programmer to make it happen.
>
> Thanks
> KenF
> Your local Open Office developer
>
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