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LeBrad
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 Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:26 am Post subject: Word Perfect Files |
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I'm looking for a program that can read Word Perfect files (aside from the obvious Word Perfect itself). I tried with Open Office, but I could not find the right filter to open it with.
Appreciate any help. |
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PowerFactor
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| Try wpd2sxw. Last I checked it doesn't handle graphics or other embedded objects. But it worked well enough for me. |
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Squinky86
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, wpd2sxw (recently added to portage) is nice, and libwpd has a filter that supposedly allows openoffice to read wordperfect files.
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vbenares
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:00 am Post subject: |
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Seems like some openoffice guru must have already come up with a better way of doing this, but I couldn't find it quickly. So I wrote a little perl script to wrap wpd2sxw. It takes the names of wpd files and generates sxw files. I make no claims that this is anything other than a bug-filled inept way of doing this. (Suggestions are welcome.)
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
#copes with multiple filenames
#new file will have sxw suffix - otherwise same name as input
for my $input_file (split / (?=\/)/,join(' ',@ARGV)){
my $output_file = $input_file.'.sxw';
$output_file =~ s/\.wpd\./\./;
print "input_file: $input_file\n";
print "output_file: $output_file\n\n";
system( "wpd2sxw \'$input_file\' \'$output_file\'");
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I use gnome, so I associated this script with the WP file type -- actually, I associated the following command which incorporates the script with the wordperfect file type, so I can just choose the conversion function from the nautilus popup menu.
| Code: | | xterm -hold -fs 18 -e '/home/vbenares/Perl Scripts/openoffice/wpd2sxw.pl' |
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count_zero
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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I've emerged the libwpd and recompiled Openoffice, but OO still doesn't seem to recognize the wpd format. Do I need to specify a USE flag or something during the install of OO?
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Squinky86
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| count_zero wrote: | | I've emerged the libwpd and recompiled Openoffice, but OO still doesn't seem to recognize the wpd format. Do I need to specify a USE flag or something during the install of OO? |
No, the plugin for OO is a separate package (no ebuild for it (yet)). Look at "writerperfect" on the libwpd website (http://libwpd.sf.net/). Portage does, however, have wpd2sxw which will transfer your document into the .sxw type and edit it like that.
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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How would I edit your script so that it opens OpenOffice and the output file automatically?
| vbenares wrote: | Seems like some openoffice guru must have already come up with a better way of doing this, but I couldn't find it quickly. So I wrote a little perl script to wrap wpd2sxw. It takes the names of wpd files and generates sxw files. I make no claims that this is anything other than a bug-filled inept way of doing this. (Suggestions are welcome.)
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
#copes with multiple filenames
#new file will have sxw suffix - otherwise same name as input
for my $input_file (split / (?=\/)/,join(' ',@ARGV)){
my $output_file = $input_file.'.sxw';
$output_file =~ s/\.wpd\./\./;
print "input_file: $input_file\n";
print "output_file: $output_file\n\n";
system( "wpd2sxw \'$input_file\' \'$output_file\'");
} |
I use gnome, so I associated this script with the WP file type -- actually, I associated the following command which incorporates the script with the wordperfect file type, so I can just choose the conversion function from the nautilus popup menu.
| Code: | | xterm -hold -fs 18 -e '/home/vbenares/Perl Scripts/openoffice/wpd2sxw.pl' |
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nevermind - I got it:
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
#copes with multiple filenames
#new file will have sxw suffix - otherwise same name as input
for my $input_file (split / (?=\/)/,join(' ',@ARGV)){
my $output_file = $input_file.'.sxw';
$output_file =~ s/\.wpd\./\./;
print "input_file: $input_file\n";
print "output_file: $output_file\n\n";
system( "wpd2sxw \'$input_file\' \'$output_file\'");
system( "/usr/bin/xoowriter $output_file");
}
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If you're like me, and you have many OLD files that end in .WPD as well as .wpd, and if you trust wpd2sxw, you can even have the script delete the old files:
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
#copes with multiple filenames
#new file will have sxw suffix - otherwise same name as input
for my $input_file (split / (?=\/)/,join(' ',@ARGV)){
my $output_file = $input_file.'.sxw';
$output_file =~ s/\.wpd\./\./;
$output_file =~ s/\.WPD\./\./;
print "input_file: $input_file\n";
print "output_file: $output_file\n\n";
system( "wpd2sxw \'$input_file\' \'$output_file\'");
system( "/usr/bin/xoowriter $output_file");
system( "rm \'$input_file\'");
}
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guidedvision
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject: Writer Perfect working! |
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I have finally got the writer perfect filters to work on Gentoo (and RH9 btw). Here are the steps. I hope they can help someone else.
This will allow you to do File->Open on a Word Perfect file and the file will just open for you (no choosing filter needed).
CLOSE ALL INSTANCES OF OOo
1. Install libgsf. Get the most up to date version you can find.
2. Install libwpd package.
3. Download and untar the latest writerperfect tgz file from http://libwpd.sf.net
3. If you do not have a JAVA sdk (ie. only the JRE) go to http://java.sun.com and download the latest SDK or get from portage.
4. Download and set up the OOo SDK. THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL. Go to http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/index.html and download the one for Linux.
5. As root, extract the SDK. Then in that directory do ./configure. You will have to tell it the location of your OOo, your Java SDK, and other things. The last question asks about auto deployment - say YES.
6. Then run 'setsdkenv_unix' to get into the SDK prompt.
7. Change directories to the writerperfect directory. Run make. If you encounter errors early on, it might be because you need updated libgsf. As long as it makes the WriterPerfect.uno.zip file, you are fine. I never got it to copy properly at the end since I do -net installs and I think it looks only user installs. Exit the SDK prompt.
8. If it exits abnormally, manually copy the uno.zip file to your OOo directory under /share/uno_packages.
9. In your OOo directory under /program run 'pkgchk --shared'. This will register the filter properly for all users.
10. Start OOo and you should find you can open Word Perfect files.
*Note: If you have a single user install you may not need to do #8 and #9, or you may have to copy the uno.zip to your /user/uno_packages directory. I'm not sure if pkgchk --shared is then the correct way to register the filter - but you can try it. |
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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No matter what I do, I end up with the following error when running 'make' in the writerperfect directory:
| Code: | "/opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/program/pkgchk" -f "./LINUX.out/bin/WriterPerfect.uno.zip"
> error: /user/uno_packages cannot be made absolute!
> dying abnormally...
make: *** [LINUX.out/misc/WriterPerfect_register_component.flag] Error 1
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