I think this was meant for the list:

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Migrating to Linux - WP Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:17:15 -0500 From: Justin Dugger jldugger@gmail.com To: Jared jared@hatwhite.com

One word of caution, OO.org doesn't nessecarily do a great job at working with non-native documents, especially as a beta. I'm not sure how you can con the lawyers into testing the suitability for their needs though, given that the firm probably likes them working on billable hours and such. Just because it "works" doesn't mean it always works, after all. Nobody likes an upgrade that works like a downgrade, which puts a huge burden on OO.org to handle document formats, work just like the old software, and crash less often.

On the other hand, it sounds like it might work better than a WINE solution. There is a third possiblity, but reading the FAQ it sounds heavily problematic: WordPerfect on Linux natively. Its now unsupported, but neither is WINE.

Justin Dugger

On 4/13/05, Jared jared@hatwhite.com wrote:

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The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output.

Look at the beta for openoffice 2.0, it now handles WordPerfect. Scroll about half of the way down this page:

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html

-Jared