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From: "Mary Compton" on 19 Dec 2009 15:55

----- Original Message -----
From: "William W. Austin" <waustin(a)speakeasy.net>
To: <discuss(a)openoffice.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0


> On 2007-10-04 23:23:34, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge
>> <jbk4070(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3
>> and
>> > Approach files.
>> > I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read
>> Lotus
>> > WordPro documents. This is a killer for me as I've just started up
>> a new
>> > computer (my 5th) with Vista and can't seem to load my old
>> LotusSuite
>> > 9.8.1
>> > on it.
>> > I just saw on your website that IBM is adopting much of OpenOffice
>> and
>> > coming out with it's Symphony.
>>
>> I would go to to IBM and see if they have a Lotus-OpenDocument
>> convertor.
> (SNIP)
>
> Yesterday I downloaded the demo of Symphony - both for Linux and for
> windows - and this morning I installed them.
>
> The good news is that there is a filter there which can read several
> Lotus formats. The bad news is that while the windows version loaded
> and appears to run correctly on a WinXP machine, the Linux version had
> a serious problem and the install failed. The first try almost worked,
> and I was able to bring up one doc with it, but it died, and I ended up
> having to remove it and try to reinstall. But all Linux re-installs
> fail, so I can't pursue any comparison since I don't normally have
> access to that WinXP machine to compare (it was borrowed for the
> install).
>
> FWIW, the only big bug in this spin-off from OOo is that page numbers,
> page counts, and a few other field items disappear and the mechanism to
> recover them - if present - is fairly well hidden.
>
> But it was possible (winxp) to import a couple of lotus docs, save them
> as ".odt" and them work with them in OOo. ... so far, anyway ...
>
> --
> william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
> "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
>
>
>
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From: "Mark C. Miller" on 19 Dec 2009 19:47
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:55:58 -0600, Mary Compton wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William W. Austin" <waustin(a)speakeasy.net> To:
> <discuss(a)openoffice.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [discuss]
> OpenOffice 2.3.0
>
>
>> On 2007-10-04 23:23:34, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge
>>> <jbk4070(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3
>>> and
>>> > Approach files.
>>> > I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read
>>> Lotus
>>> > WordPro documents. This is a killer for me as I've just started up
>>> a new
>>> > computer (my 5th) with Vista and can't seem to load my old
>>> LotusSuite
>>> > 9.8.1
>>> > on it.
>>> > I just saw on your website that IBM is adopting much of OpenOffice
>>> and
>>> > coming out with it's Symphony.
>>>
>>> I would go to to IBM and see if they have a Lotus-OpenDocument
>>> convertor.
>> (SNIP)
>>
>> Yesterday I downloaded the demo of Symphony - both for Linux and for
>> windows - and this morning I installed them.
>>
>> The good news is that there is a filter there which can read several
>> Lotus formats. The bad news is that while the windows version loaded
>> and appears to run correctly on a WinXP machine, the Linux version had
>> a serious problem and the install failed. The first try almost worked,
>> and I was able to bring up one doc with it, but it died, and I ended up
>> having to remove it and try to reinstall. But all Linux re-installs
>> fail, so I can't pursue any comparison since I don't normally have
>> access to that WinXP machine to compare (it was borrowed for the
>> install).
>>
>> FWIW, the only big bug in this spin-off from OOo is that page numbers,
>> page counts, and a few other field items disappear and the mechanism to
>> recover them - if present - is fairly well hidden.
>>
>> But it was possible (winxp) to import a couple of lotus docs, save them
>> as ".odt" and them work with them in OOo. ... so far, anyway ...
>>
>> --
>> william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
>> "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
>>
>>
>>
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I'm not sure about the ability to read the files you want, but
OpenOffice.org is at version 3.1 now. Installing the most recent version
may give you success that you've not been able to achieve so far.



--
Mark C. Miller, Indianapolis IN, USA


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