Howard Coles Jr. wrote: > I see a filter in my OpenOffice.org writer that shows that I can open WordPro > Docs (from Lotus Smartsuite). However, when I open a doc it just comes up a > blank page. > I'm running 2.0.4 (because Kubuntu doesn't have packages for 2.1 and I'm not > into reverse engineering any rpms). > I did install 2.1 on a Windoze box, but I didn't see any filters for opening > WordPro files.
OOo "officially" doesn't contain such a filter. If you found one on any platform it must have been added by the distributor. There is an experimental version of a simple lwp filter that tries to just get the text out of lwp documents but until now the quality of it wasn't good enough to achieve even this in a reliable manner. Maybe someone added this filter (that exists as a patch in Issue Tracker) to your distro. I know some people who love to add unfinished work to their official builds and let users test it. They call this "incremental development". :-) > The question is, is this, or ever was this, a real ability of OpenOffice.org? > If so, does anyone have any hints about making it work? If you happened to use the mentioned filter prototype the only way would be to ask the developer(s) how things are going. I don't remember the issue number but you can search for a "patch" issue in the "word processor" component assigned to "flr". Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
