rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) (03/12/88)
Since I was the one who originally posted the query, I've found some
info...
There is indeed a desk accessory for doing translation from WriteNow to
MacWrite files, which is fine, because MS Word can read MacWrite files with
no problem.
All is not roses, however. While the translator DA converts documents containing
pure text with no problems, as soon as I try to convert a document containing
graphics (mostly pasted-in MacPaint bitmaps) I run into problems. The conversion
process itself goes smoothly, but as soon as I try to load the file into
MacWrite or MS Word, MacWrite gives me the message "Some paragraphs couldn't
be read into memory due to a disk error", and MS Word says "Ignoring part
of a MacWrite document." When the document is in, I notice that large
chunks of text, usually immediately following the graphics, are MISSING.
I can compare the documents by eye, and copy over the chunks that are missing,
but to do this for a document weighing in at over a hundred pages is
a real nuisance, to say the least.
I'm using version 1.61 of the converter; it's shareware at $20.00, but I
don't intend to buy it until I have a version that's useful to me.
If Ed Bolson is out there, and if there's a newer version of the translator,
I'd sure like to know....
Rich
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