Doug, On Saturday 14 August 2004 20:03, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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I have OpenOffice that came with 9.1, ...
I receive files in .doc format which I need to print out and edit. With WP, the file is converted, and then the program hangs, and the file cannot (usually) be printed, but the formatting seems to be OK. With OpenOffice, the file is readable with a whole lot of garbage on the top and the bottom, and all the formatting--bold, italics, line spacing--is gone.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think OO.o is interpreting your WordPerfect ".doc" files as Microsoft Word. Naturally, this won't work. I went through the file format pop-up in the OO.o and WordPerfect does not appear there. (This, too, is the stock OO.o included with SuSE Pro 9.1.)
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I would buy the commercial version of OO from Sun, but how do I know it would work any better? Must I go back to Windows? WP for Windows works well.
I found one Web site that refers to a project to create a WordPerfect import filter for OO.o:: http://wp.openoffice.org/. There may be others.
I have the Reiser FS. How can I copy files from this FS to the NTFS system using Windows, since Linux will not allow me to write to the NTFS system. Then I could boot to Win and use the Win tools on the files.
A couple of options: 1) Format a diskette for FAT and bounce files via it. 2) Create a FAT partition somewhere on (one of) your hard drive(s). It can be mounted read/write under Linux. 3) Use a USB memory stick, again using a FAT file system format.
--doug
Randall Schulz