[CS-FSLUG] Howto convert wordperfect documents to some other format?

Jukka Y mail at ylonen.info
Tue Aug 24 10:07:14 CDT 2004


On Tuesday 24 August 2004 17:58, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 10:38 AM 8/24/04, Jukka Y wrote:
> >Does anyone know how to convert old wp-documents to a format that can be
> >edited further in common linux word-processors
> > (OpenOffice/Koffice/Abiword)? Is there commandline tools (or some free
> > versions of Wordperfect) for that?
>
> There is a patch for OpenOffice called WriterPerfect (version 0.2.1) that
> will allow OOoWrite to open WPD documents directly - get it here:
>          http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/
> There is also a command-line conversion (called wpd2sxw) available at the
> same site.
>
> Neither is perfect (they use common code), but works fine for most of our
> documents.

Thank you!! :-)

Blessings,
Jukka




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