If you had a Macintosh Plus in 1986, you could have used any of a half-dozen different word processors. If you don't remember which program you used, then you...
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Mikeca
mikesreach
Aug 10, 2011 11:43 am
...watching this thread... seems even to get started there are some unknowns: 1. file type (affix) 2. size 3. media it's on (a floppy?) 4. media type you need...
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Mikeca
mikesreach
Aug 10, 2011 11:45 am
So it's a diskette? MacPlus's came with built in 3.5 floppy drives. But there were 5.25 floppy drives available. mikeca...
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John R
jrethorst
Aug 10, 2011 5:55 pm
Cool! Much better than my advice to extract text and start over. This problem of rogue codes is one disadvantage of inline formatting codes compared to other...
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John R
jrethorst
Aug 13, 2011 7:04 pm
Our own Ed Mendelson has published "The Human Face of Type" in the New York Review of Books: ...
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Jim Voelzow
jv414@att.net
Aug 14, 2011 6:30 pm
Adobe Garamond. Formal, well crafted, pleasing to the eye and easy to read. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Aug 14, 2011 7:15 pm
In WP on SS or in OS X generally?...
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John R
jrethorst
Aug 14, 2011 8:52 pm
Either or both? BTW I haven't explored it, but have heard there's a way to use OSX fonts in SS. It might be that Adobe Type Manager (which comes with my SS-WP...
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John R
jrethorst
Aug 14, 2011 9:13 pm
It is. I think my favorite serif font is New Baskerville, although Bell, Caslon and Plantin are nice too. I'm still on a quest for that perfect sans-serif....
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Rick Albright
logres0
Aug 14, 2011 10:35 pm
I've been on a quest for the perfect font for about as long as I've been using fonts. It never ends. For awhile I used Helvetica a lot, and while I think it's...
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Paul Cowan
utarjim
Aug 15, 2011 12:46 am
... Univers. But that's just me. bye, P. (^_^) ... mailto:pooru@... Ma, quando si acquista stati in una provincia disforme di lingua, di costumi e di...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Aug 15, 2011 6:02 am
I started with Palatino when I first used a Mac in the 1990s. In SS, it is TNR for a serif and Helvetica for san serif. Boring, but seen the same on other...
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mxytsplyk
Aug 15, 2011 6:35 am
Academy Engraved LET Book Antiqua Copperplate Techno Zapfino 1 I also recommend the Type Primer from Adobe, in the Files Section here. Joe...
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David Derbes
drderbes
Aug 21, 2011 9:34 pm
Some weeks ago, in the [OS X TeX] listserv, a poster mentioned a utility "wp2latex"; which could convert WordPerfect files to LaTeX. I am quite interested in...
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em315
Aug 22, 2011 1:28 pm
David, This is very interesting. I downloaded version 3.55b from the page you linked to - and I can't find any OS X executables inside it. I see Linux and DOS...
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David Derbes
drderbes
Aug 22, 2011 2:04 pm
Aha. Well, I believe they will be there shortly. You will not have to build from source, courtesy of Jaroslav and Peter. I'll email 'em to John. Two small...
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em315
Aug 22, 2011 3:01 pm
After writing my message, I built from source - successfully, though it told me that the resulting executable had no png or jpeg support (I don't know if that...
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em315
Aug 22, 2011 3:05 pm
A third-party program called WordPerfect Viewer has been available for some time at the App Store for OS X: ...
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David Derbes
drderbes
Aug 22, 2011 4:40 pm
There are several on-line LaTeX to PDF converters (and most of them are free.) Google will find them for you. Here are a few: ...
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em315
Aug 22, 2011 5:04 pm
Sounds good, thanks. I'm trying to create a self-contained Applescript application, so going online probably isn't practical. But if it requires a 1 GB...
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rifetube
Aug 24, 2011 3:35 am
Hi, After having run SheepShaver with Word Perfect 3.5e for several years without problems on my original MacBook Pro, Word Perfect is now deciding to behave...
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em315
Aug 25, 2011 1:45 pm
Try: File > Page Setup > Paper and change the size....
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rifetube
Aug 26, 2011 3:50 pm
Hi, Many thanks for your suggestion...I figured it was likely something relatively simple. When I first tried changing the paper size, it didn't work. Turns...
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John R
jrethorst
Aug 29, 2011 4:11 am
These are now in the Files section here, as wp2latex32.7z and wp2latex64.7z. John R....
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mr.longpants
Sep 2, 2011 7:08 am
currently using Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on a Macbook Pro - i have some OLD WP 2.1.3 (from 1999) files, which, on this Intel processor, are unreadable "exec"...
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em315
Sep 2, 2011 5:00 pm
Do you actually know the password that was used to protect the files? If so, download this converter: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/WP%20Converter.zip Remove...
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mr.longpants
Sep 2, 2011 6:10 pm
i have tried: WP converter WPDto ODT converter WPLO converter LibreOffice (which has opened some of the "exec" files but not the ones i really need to open ...
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em315
Sep 2, 2011 6:36 pm
REPOST WITH CORRECT LINK: Well, if Get Info recognizes them as WP files, and if the WP Converter won't open them, then download the system described here and...
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em315
Sep 2, 2011 11:54 pm
I've posted a new version of a converter program that will convert WordPerfect files to the ODT format used by LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, etc.....
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em315
Sep 2, 2011 11:55 pm
Also try the new version of the WPDtoODTConverter, just posted, as described in this message: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/message/6999 It...
