Word perfect

[Leon Goldstein]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>I have inherited some Word Perfect docs that I need to get into StarOffice.
>Yeehaa. Anywaty, I see that Open- and StarOffice do not import Word Perfect
>files.
>
StarOffice has a WP filter, but only for its Windows version.

>
>It seems that the files are from WP 5 and, possibly, WP 9 as well. I deduce
>this by looking at the start of the file, where I see either "WPC5" or
>"WPC9".
>
Makes no difference to WP8.

>
>I also tried abiword to read these, with no luck. Version 1.99.5 (withh SUSE
>9) does not list it when opening files and seems not to autodetect it.
>Version 0.99.3 at least lists WP 6/7/8, but also will not read the files.
>
There is a plug-in for Abiword that provides import filters.  The WP 
filter is quite good.

>
>So, I thought I would dig up my WP 8 from an old Caldera 2.2 release. It is
>a libc.so.5 sort of beast, and I do not have such a system. I did install
>the RPM on SuSE 9, but the xwp binary will not even load, let alone run.
>Even 'ldd xwp' fails. Although 'file xwp' says it is an ELF binary.
>
SuSE has shlibs5, which you should install with YAST.  That provides 
libc5, writes /etc/ld.so.conf, runs ldconfig etc.
Your Caldera WP8 RPM installs in /opt, and the executable is ~/wpbin/xwp.
If you get an error after installing (forgot the exact wording) open wp8 
as root/su, then run~/wpbin/xwp -adm, and in the preferences tab of the 
little window that opens next to the WP8 desktop disable file locking.  
This particular little problem seems to be quite frequent with new Linuces.

>
>So, what reasonable options might I have for converting some dozen or so
>docs of 70 or so pages each into, say, word, so that I can get them into
>StarOffice? I know that there are WP users on this list, but I never really
>read those threads very closely.
>
Current Abiword and Koffice have WP import filters.  They work on 
Libranet 2.8.1 (stock install.)
The Abiword filter is the more capable.


-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

Powered by Libranet 2.8 Debian Linux
System G2