knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) (02/14/91)
I'm wondering what data formats Word Perfect on the MAC can handle. Can it read/write RTF? (is this the same as "generic" word-processing format mentioned in the PC Word Perfect manual?) Can it read/write PC format? thanks in advance tom
drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) (02/15/91)
In article <80370001@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes: > I'm wondering what data formats Word Perfect on the MAC can handle. As shipped, the only data format WordPerfect 2.0 handles is WordPerfect 2.0. It also ships with a number of translators that you must install to use. If you install them, you should be able to import DCA-RFT, RTF, MacWrite (*not* MacWrite II), WordPerfect (Mac) 1.0, WordPerfect (PC) 4.2, 5.0 & 5.1, any translations that use Claris XTND technology, and a wad of obscure PC word processors that no one uses. It also imports EPSF, GIF, MacPaint (*not* MacPaint II, I think) and TIFF. It exports WordPerfect (Mac) 1.0 and WordPerfect (PC) 5.0 & 5.1. The word processing translators supplied by WordPerfect seem to have worked OK in the few simple cases I tried, but the Claris XTND import does not work. It is intended to let you use MacLink Plus translators for file import. The instructions say that the translators must be in the Claris folder in the System Folder, not in a folder in the Claris folder. I did this thing, and MacWrite II didn't mind; it still used the translators. WordPerfect didn't. When I tried to open a file using Claris XTND import, I got an error message saying that CMNU resource 612 was not found. I'd read about this, so I knew to use ResEdit to change the ID of the one CMNU resource in WordPerfect to 612. After doing this, attempting to open a file using Claris XTND import gives the message "Translators not found in System Folder or application folder." I can't say whether the graphics import filters work or not; every time I try to go into WordPerfect's graphics environment, it hangs my Mac. David Gutierrez drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) (02/15/91)
drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes: >I can't say whether the graphics import filters work or not; every time I >try to go into WordPerfect's graphics environment, it hangs my Mac. We had this problem too - it turned out that the problem was an INIT we were using called "LaunchIt" which kept track of application usage (I think that was what it was called - I can't remember off hand). -- "Swing is a feeling... Everything else is just style." --Capt. Swing jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -- "Swing is a feeling... Everything else is just style." --Capt. Swing jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu