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

[Iketo]

My $.02...

I thought I read somewhere that OpenOffice was an "upgrade" to Star Office
5.  Personally, I like the fact that it did not need a filter to open my old
Star Office files.  I just checked, and my OpenOffice did not come with a WP
filter, but I did not go searching to see how easy it was to install.  It's
also nice to "see" that OOo did not need to pull up a useless desktop to
just open a file.  It only seems to open the program needed to open the file
specified, not the entire thing (emulation of M$ Office and their setup of
seperate segments that intigrate). I have used OOo and comparibly in speed,
it is as fast as MS Office on my Windows boxes.

The last I played with WP though (WP 7), it had a Word 6 filter.  If it
still does, you would be able to save the file as Word, then utilize just
about any of the major word processors to open the word doc.

Again, this was just an opinion of personal experience.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Huntwork" <ash at huntwork.net>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] linux distro including staroffice 7? or how toread
wordperfect docs on linux? or what's up with sun's java desktop


> I think wordperfect may be the one difference in terms of readable files
> between openoffice and staroffice.  See for example this eweek review:
> http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=108604,00.asp
>
> Staroffice also has in its dropdown for importable file types elements
> for about 6 different wordperfect formats (win wp 6/7,dos wp 5, etc),
> whereas my openoffice at home (1.1.4 (I think) on fedora core 2) only
> has one entry for "wordperfect document" that's only there now that i
> installed libwpd, I think.
>
> KWord definitely does import wordperfect docs, as does staroffice 7 eval
> edition.  Even though i installed libwpd, i have yet to get openoffice
> to do so.  I understand that the libwpd release tentatively scheduled
> for next week will be friendlier toward fc2, so maybe i'll have better
> luck then.  But kword seems to be good enough (though definitely not
> perfect) that i won't be buying so 7.
>
> Thanks for all the help!
>
> Sam Hart wrote:
>
> > * On 04-06-21, Adam S. Levy wrote:
> >
> >
> >> >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.
> >>
> >>Actually, I almost sure that OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/)
> >>imports word perfect documents. It does run on Linux (Windows, Mac,
> >>Solaris and FreeBSD as well) and is free of cost but you will have to
> >>download it. Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > OpenOffice does open all the same documents as StarOffice, so there
isn't
> > honestly much need to buy StarOffice if you're just looking to open
files.
> >
> >
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