[luau] WP, OpenOffice, Abiword, etc

[Joe Linux]

Actually I have been saving everything as "rtf" as I find that in the
long run, that is the least humbug.


On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:03, Alvin Murphy wrote:
> Greetings everyone: thanks to everyone for the help I have been 
> receiving.  I am amazed at how active and helpful this group is and now 
> kicking myself for not having attended meetings. I have been teaching 
> myself Linux for the past year basically by  reading books and trying 
> things out but my knowledge is fairly thin. Thank you, Warren for your 
> comments on open office: I will try to install it at/opt and see if I 
> can get it working, that is if I can recover from the mess I made last 
> night by trying to upgrade to Mandrake 8.2; more about that date or if I 
> get time.
> 
> Again, Warren, you said there may be a way to get around the WordPerfect 
> print driver by printing to cups. If you have any specific suggestions, 
> I would appreciate them; the print dialog screen only offers three 
> choices: disk, hp (the path to my printer on SMB via lpr), and $PRINT.  
> I am fairly sure that the last option is the way to go but I do not know 
> how to make it work. When I try to print to it, I get an error message. 
> I cannot find any environment variable on my system with that name; 
> perhaps there needs to be an export command with the correct path to the 
> spooler or filter (not that I would know how to do that). Perhaps I 
> could bring my box to the next meeting whenever that is and you could 
> have a look.
> 
> By the way, WordPerfect for Windows version 9 works very well inside my 
> Linux by using Win4Lin; I could just stay with that but I would like to 
> completely migrate to Linux.
> 
> For me, Abiword has the most pleasant appearance, imports my files 
> fairly well, translates them over my lan as word documents, but I  
> really miss the quick- correct feature and a macro function.
> 
> Star office and open office have the quick correct feature and macro 
> function but do not import WordPerfect files. Of course, there is a work 
> around by saving them as word files or .rtf, but that is humbug. By the 
> way, Josh Berkus, is working on WordPerfect filter and looking for 
> WordPerfect files to use. I will try to include his email address in 
> this note or another.
> 
> I would like to try the WordPerfect 9 wine version but have not been 
> able to obtain a copy. I tried myself to install WordPerfect using wine 
> but only progressed to a certain point where something was missing.
> 
> Thanks again, when and where is the next meeting.?
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LUAU mailing list
> LUAU at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau