> > From: Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/29 Wed PM 11:12:26 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Way OT: File conversion problem > > > On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:15 PM, j wrote: > > > Get a copy of Open Office which is free.There is a Mac version and a > > Windows version and they both will open Word Perfect files....J > > Took a while but I eventually got it installed and working. Problem > is this, it will open the files just fine and will let me save them > in a number of different file formats that I can read in Word. But > it loses the page formatting. These are documents with hundreds of > pages, so when I go to page 170, line 3, in my converted file it has > to be exactly the same as the original if we are going to converse > about these. Any thoughts on how to make that happen? I've tried > several of the formats and they all do this, but don't change the > file in the same way. All produce a very different page count from > the original.
Rather than page count, can you just use line count? The WP user should be able to number lines, iirc, so if you can there is a common measurement. Depends if your loss of page format also moves the line numbers. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
