Re: Reading WordPerfect files
Unfortunately the abiword I've got at least doesn't do anything with WP
files (version 0.7.7). LaTeX is, of course, the Right Way To Do It
(tm) but the chances of my convincing my colleagues of that in time to
stop getting their attachments are essentialy nil!
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
> 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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