Summary: WordPerfect filters for OpenOffice

[Robert Dege]

This is what I found:

The initial release of OpenOffice had no WordPerfect filters.  StarOffice
from Sun did, but they were atrocious, and castrated most
converted documents.

There are 2 projects going on to implement filters into OpenOffice:

http://libwpd.sourceforge.net - (actual binary filter)

http://wp.openoffice.org - (perl script)

Unfortunately, neither of these are for Windows as of yet, and are still
in a somewhat beta phase.  But if I had to go with one of them, I'd go
with libwpd.

-Rob


> As far as I know there isn't a Linux app that can view *.wpd files. I
> have in the past told people to convert the files to *.doc files then
> use Open Office. If you do come across something, I'd like to hear about
> it. Peter
> On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:57, Robert Dege wrote:
> > I'm trying to get OpenOffice 1.0.2 to open WordPerfect files (*.wpd).  I
> > click File -> Open, but the file type section doesn't list any WordPerfect
> > style files.  I even tried to open them as text documents, but that
> > doesn't work either.
> >
> > I checked their web site, and have found a few vague references to it, but
> > nothing that solves the problem that I'm currently having.
> >
> > I'll probably end up joining their listserv, but thought I'd ask here
> > first before adding yet another slew of emails to my INBOX :)
> >
> > Dege
> >
> > So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> > .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
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> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
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>



Dege

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