Opening Korean *.hwp 2010 files in Mac OS X 10.5.8?

Tom Gewecke wrote:

Try

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hancom-office-hanword-viewer/id416746898?mt=12

http://hangukdrama.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/how-to-view-hwp-files-on-mac/

Thanks, but please reread my original post. My client has Mac OS X 10.5.8, and not Mac OS X 10.6.x. Also, no online readers/converters.

BDAqua wrote:

Do they have an older viewer here, I know they have one for 10.6.6 & up at the app store, but I can't read this...

http://www.hancom.co.kr/hancom.main.do

Mac App Store...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hancom-office-hanword-viewer/id416746898?mt=12

On OpenOffice...

Text documents created in Hangul are saved with the extension HWP. Any HWP files created with Hangul '97 or before can be opened with OpenOffice. However, .HWP files created after this version are not compatible due to the changes in the file format's structure.

Most recent versions of Hangul are able to save documents in Microsoft's .DOC form

Can the originator save it in DOC format?

First link appears to be broken on that web site. It takes me to the company's web site which doesn't seem to have any Mac OS X readers and not even the program. Mac App store says 10.6.6 which my client doesn't have (remember 10.5.8 and this forum 😉), I told my client to ask the sender to save it as a common/popular file like MS Word .doc. For now, I had to open it in an old XP Pro. SP3 machine and print them out with the Windows' viewer program (can't even save, convert, copy and paste, etc. -- sheesh!).

BDAqua wrote:

I knew 10.5.8, that's why I specified the 10.6.6 & asked if there was an older version there, as in some search it said they had Downloads there, & occasionally you can find older versions. 😉

Hmmm, on that site did you click on the text in the red box below the gear, hammer, & wrench?

Ah, I didn't see any older versions. As for that red box below the gear, yes. That goes to the official web site. FYI, there's an English one on there but no Mac OS support anywhere. 😉 Even its frakkin' support's contact us doesn't work. Ugh! 😟

BDAqua wrote:

Ah, thanks... good luck with the project! 🙂

Thanks. I was surprised that company doesn't support Apple's Mac OS X. I wonder if Macs are not popular in Korea.

Bah, my Korean client said he can't read the printouts. 😟 Back to square one...

BDAqua wrote:

Well, since you have an IntelMac, there's Parallels...

http://www.parallels.com/

VmWare Fusion...

http://www.vmware.com/mac

VirtualBox...

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

And Wine...

http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX

Yeah, but I wonder why it was unreadable on my pure PC with old, updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 with its http://cdn.hancom.co.kr/pds/hnc/VIE/HOfficeViewer2010_enu.exe program. Weird.

BDAqua wrote:

Uh, no idea, you'd think a 2010 app could even read 2011 fles!?

Could you read the output from the print viewer program?

2011 files? I don't think they have 2011. I didn't see it mentioned on its web site. Only 2010 which would be a year old. Print viewer program? Are you referring to http://cdn.hancom.co.kr/pds/hnc/VIE/HOfficeViewer2010_enu.exe ? If so, then they were the same as the print outs. 😟 I can't read Korean either, but they looked correct to me but to my client, no. I did notice it was not aligned/formatted correctly in some places.

BDAqua wrote:

Maybe you could paste it into Google Translate & get an idea of what it says or doesn't say ...

The documents are sensitive so I can't post them in public. Hence why I can't use those online readers/converters. :/ Also, the viewers won't let me copy to paste. 😟