Re: Reading WordPerfect files
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
| Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format
| (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on
| reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't
| get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2r3):
|
| hm269-26876:/usr/local/wp/wpbin# ./xwp
| ./xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
I think there is a statically compiled version somewhere. If not
search in old packages to find the old library it needs (IIRC WP and
Netscape were both linked against old libs such as libc5 and old
imaging libs).
| I don't have a need to alter or even view the formatting of these files,
| I'd just like to get the information out of them. Any advice?
As Faheem suggested, I seem to recall that AbiWord could work with WP,
to some extent anyways. Now that I think about it a bit more, it may
have needed translation to an old (ie 95) Word format from WP to read
it. Good to hear that it read MS Word2k files.
<sarcasm> Gotta love those amazingly interroperable proprietary
formats. </sarcasm>
I've recently been learning what a great format LaTeX is, once you
know how to achieve the formatting you want.
-D
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