At 11:21 AM 18/08/02 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 8/18/02 3:59:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> I only wish that there had been an effort to standardise simple text files
>> and character mappings.
>-----------------------------------
>One of my favorite WP applications for the earlier Macs was WriteNow. It's
>almost impossible to convert WriteNow text files directly to Windows.
>Conversions won't convert it. I must open WriteNow docs in an older Mac, and
>copy and paste it into almost any version of WordPerfect. Then it's a simple
>matter of opening the WordPerfect docs in MS Word, which Conversions
>presents. However, the original font style (Times Roman in this case) is
lost.
The first thing I always try is RTF. Apparently WriteNow 4.02 can export
RTF. Word in Win or Mac can open that (give the file a .rtf or .doc
suffix). As for actual fonts, as opposed to styles (bold, italic); in DTP I
rarely care what that was.
But I've found WordPerfect very useful too; I use an old layout app that
doesn't understand Winword, but Word saves as WP 5.1 and that works very
well. People forget that 10 years ago WP was the top dog -- Winword had a
special "help for WordPerfect users" button, as they did a "help for Lotus
123" in Excel. WP5.1 files became a default standard. Too bad they gave up
on Macs ("they" having changed at least three times probably being part of
the problem).
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