[Tfug] linux distro including staroffice 7? or how to read wordperfect docs on linux? or what's up with sun's java desktop

[John C. Dale]

I've been using Open Office in both windows and linux environments for 
about 8 months.

There is an occasional hiccup, but nothing serious.

It reads all windows document formats, generates PDF's, and even comes 
with the presentation software.

Last semester, I gave all of my master's presentations with OO.  It 
worked swimmingly.

Just my 2 cents.

JCD

Richard Lamoreaux wrote:

>Kword works for me on all my old Word Perfect documents. I tried OO, Abi, the only one that 
>works well is KWord.
>
>Rich
>
>On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:04:10 -0700
>Robert Zeigler <rdzeigle at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>>You might take a look at KWord, as well.  I've not used it much, but the 
>>last time I was in there (I just dbl checked to make sure), there was a 
>>filter to save as word perfect; I'd assume that if they have the filter 
>>to write wp, they can probably read it, too.  To what degree, I don't 
>>know as I really don't have WP handy. Additionally, Kword can save in 
>>the OOwriter format, so, if you like OO, you can use WP as an 
>>intermediary to get your WP docs from WP to the OO format.
>>
>>Robert
>>
>>Andrew Huntwork wrote:
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>>
>>>I'm about to buy staroffice 7 so that my wife can import wordperfect 
>>>docs produced at her office on her laptop that now runs fedora core 2 
>>>(possibly much to her dismay -- but it must be better than a win me 
>>>install that decided not to boot anymore).  Is there another easy way 
>>>for her to import those docs on linux?  (i actually have corel 
>>>wordperfect 8 for linux (WINE based) but it is buggy to the extent of 
>>>truncating documents along with their backup files -- which I found out 
>>>the hard way 3 times).
>>>
>>>So since i'm going to shell out some cash for linux software (something 
>>>i haven't done since crossover office 1), i'd like to get the most bang 
>>>for my buck, so i figured i could get a distro maybe including support 
>>>or other apps for about the same price as staroffice 7 alone ($80). does 
>>>anyone know of a linux distribution that includes staroffice 7?
>>>
>>>It looks like Sun's Java Desktop does have staroffice 7 (along with some 
>>>other interesting stuff), but i wonder if i'll be able to install SO 7 
>>>from java desktop on fedora core 2.  Does Java Desktop use RPM's or 
>>>what?  Does its packages have normal dependencies?  Basically, what's up 
>>>with packages on Java Desktop, and specifically, what's up with its 
>>>staroffice packages?
>>>
>>>Thanks for the help.
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John C. Dale
MS MIS, December 2005
The Eller College of Management
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

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