Pages won't open WordPerfect (.wpd) docs. Someone suggested AbiWord, which is a partial solution, but is buggy and won't open graphic files. Does anyone know of a better workaround? Also, does Apple have any plans to include a WordPerfect converter in a future version of Pages?
mjzee wrote:
Also, does Apple have any plans to include a WordPerfect converter in a future version of Pages?
Here we are endusers trying to help other end users. If some of us are aware of Apple's projects, they signed a Non Disclosure Agreement. So they will not write what they are aware of.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 19 juillet 2008 20:38:45)
I'll have to dig out some of my old WordPerfect files and try, but can you rename the file with a .doc and open? I've converted Amiga OS Word Processing files this way then use Find/Replace to remove formatting codes that do not translate well.
NeoOffice opens WordPerfect files. I haven't had occasion to open any complex files so I don't know whether there are any problems with it. It's open source so you can try it without any cost.
Thanks. NeoOffice is definitely less buggy than AbiWord. It still doesn't solve the graphics problem (when graphics are embedded in a file, they don't show), but it does get me farther ahead.
I naturally assume you no longer have access to WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, or you would already have attempted a rather mickey mousish way (but perhaps THE easiest way) of exporting all those native WordPerfect files, one at a time, as generic text files (minus those several hundred bytes of formatting information up front, relating to fonts, margins, line spacing, footers, headers, and so on - you'd be surprised how complex a WordPerfect file can get). Then, once you have the plain vanilla text files, you ought to be able to import them because they are as plain vanilla as plain vanilla gets.
On the other hand, it sure would be nice if somebody somewhere were to document the way a WordPerfect file were put together.
I forgot to mention that the easiest way to reduce your WordPerfect files to plain vanilla text files is by pressing CTRL F5, and they will be exported into something that is easily manageable by your Mac (but that presupposes you have some way of getting into WordPerfect, and executing it.)
May you pack a sample file with pictures embedded as a .zip archive, attach it to a mail and send them to my mailbox?
I will try to find the way pictures are stored in the file.
Maybe I will find a way to extract them.
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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 18 septembre 2008 15:41:11)
