-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:16 am, scott chevalley wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > >021111 Brent Hasty wrote: > >>The office network I manage has several useres who were word perfect > >> users, and have a large resource of *.wpd documents. We researched into > >> staroffice and what we found is that it advertised being able to import > >> *.wpd files, ecclent. We then placed our order for mdk 9 for upgrade > >> purposes and because it had star office bundled with it. > >>Well I got the staroffice rpms installed and tried opening a wordperfect > >>document, well nothing :-( > >>I then checked the documentation, and tried a custom install for the > >> purpose of selecting the filters I wanted installed. Unfortunately it > >> seems the advertised *.wpd filter was not included. > > > >just a workaround: can't you copy .wpd -> .doc -> .sxw ? > > just a thought... current version of Abiword read .wpd files. I'm not > sure how good it does, but it does support it. perhaps, at the very > least, open them in Abiword and save them out at RTF to open in star > office... just a thought...
The greater question is.... did StarOffice come with the .wpd filters and if not how does one get them? It is challenging in an office situation to have to bounce between software designed to do the same thing. The resistance and whining factors increase exponentially -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE90SwaQ3BM1ElJCVIRAomPAJ0WBtYM3E1cFpezoCTMkigPPxzT6gCbBIbv xSr2EdwX/tSMMzVh7wHLJRg= =bxas -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
