Word perfect

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I installed this. In my opinion, all you really get is the text from the WP
file. All equations, for example, are simply gone. Page formatting (e.g,
headers and footers) are wrong. Most paragraphs have not kept any useful
formatting. To the point that each rather ok line is followed by a line with
one word. I think all it kept was the occasional bold text and paragraph
breaks.

So, I think this is a work in progress. And I can see why it is not yet
actually part of the OO/SO suite. 

Current winner (still): Word -> SO

Thanks for the pointer. I had not considered that there may be a stand-alone
conversion tool for this.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:05:42 +0100
"Hermann J. Beckers" <hj.beckers at onlinehome.de> wrote:

> Just seen on freshmeat:
> 
> 
> Office/Business :: Office Suites
> Text Editors :: Word Processors
> Text Processing :: Filters
> 
> About: libwpd is a library designed to help in the process of importing
> and exporting WordPerfect documents by hiding its stream-based formatting
> behind a modern C++ API. It is used in the recent versions of AbiWord's
> WordPerfect filter. A stand-alone utility based on libwpd, wpd2sxw, is
> available now for converting WordPerfect documents to OpenOffice.org's
> XML-based file format. 
> 
> Changes: This release adds support for WordPerfect 4 and 5 document
> import.
> 
> License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
> 
> URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libwpd/
> 
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