... It looks to me like Ed's WPMacApp has several substantial improvements over my Sheepshaver-WordPerfect Install, and I don't know that there's a need for me...
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mxytsplyk
Sep 18, 2012 4:16 am
'..IMHO simply better than anything else ever released for the Mac.' Yes!...
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John R
jrethorst
Sep 18, 2012 4:38 am
Keeping a backup Prefs (and Library) file, and making a copy to replace the possibly corrupted one in current use, is very good advice. Beyond that, and...
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Edward Mendelson
em315
Sep 18, 2012 12:39 pm
My guess is that the most practical thing to do is (1) install Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion (I prefer Fusion); (2) install Windows into Parallels or...
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Doug Auwarter
mangueirense
Sep 18, 2012 1:18 pm
I agree with every word. And the level of support on this forum is far better than one would encounter with Microsoft. I didn't think I'd ever move beyond...
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em315
Sep 18, 2012 5:00 pm
I have to take back what I said below about Codeweavers Crossover. I forgot that WP12 under Crossover can only save files if you turn off "Enhanced File...
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em315
Sep 19, 2012 12:54 pm
I'd like to make this a separate topic, so that we can see whether anyone has actually started using WPMac in the OS X era, never having used it in the OS...
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em315
Sep 22, 2012 3:37 pm
I know that no one uses WordPerfect for DOS 5.0 any longer, but WPMac has an option to save files in WPDOS 5.0 format - and someone might use it by mistake...
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John R
jrethorst
Sep 22, 2012 4:31 pm
I don't have a DOS or Windows computer with WP for those platforms here, but I took a WPMac doc and saved it in WP 5.0 for DOS format. I then opened that in...
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em315
Sep 22, 2012 7:00 pm
That was exactly my experience with the converter. When you remove the converter, you lose the ability to save in 5.1 format as well as in 5.0 format, and 5.1...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Sep 22, 2012 8:43 pm
Cannot do it here (I am in Australia, leaving today), but I sometimes used to save as WPDos 5.0 effectively(although I, too, have seen the empty file on...
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John R
jrethorst
Sep 23, 2012 5:00 am
This minor update only adds a readme file explaining how to install on Mountain Lion (OS 10.8). No other change. There are significant advantages to installing...
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em315
Sep 23, 2012 11:57 am
Under Mountain Lion, unfortunately, the "faster printing" feature in the WPMacApp no longer works, apparently because of changes in OS X security settings....
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em315
Sep 25, 2012 1:11 pm
One feature of the WPMacApp method of running WPMac under SheepShaver (a system based very closely on John's SheepShaver-WP system) is that it automatically...
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Chris Harshman
ojailoop
Sep 26, 2012 12:38 am
... For what it's worth, that's the solution I ended up with (though I'm running WPWin 12 under Wine, not Crossover (which is basically Wine made more user...
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em315
Sep 26, 2012 2:31 am
Could you possibly spell out in detail how you got WP12 installed under Wine? I didn't have much success, but I admit that I didn't try very hard. Any details...
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Thomas Clayton
topcatdrc
Sep 26, 2012 2:08 pm
While looking for _what_ "CodeWeavers CrossOver" is, I came across a reference to a this announcement. It _may_ be of some interest to those of you who have...
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Chris Harshman
ojailoop
Sep 26, 2012 3:40 pm
... It's been a while, but IIRC I used an OEM WordPerfect Office 12 CD that came with an old Dell laptop I had, and just ran the installer, installing only the...
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em315
Sep 26, 2012 4:00 pm
Thank you. I'll give this another try later. If I remember correctly, I was able to print using CrossOver, but I don't remember testing printing under Wine....
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em315
Sep 29, 2012 3:32 pm
A few days ago a new version of the commercial WP file viewer WPD Wizard got posted on the App Store. It's a major improvement over the first version, and...
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mxytsplyk
Sep 30, 2012 8:05 am
I have the iPhone version: Itʻs limited in presenting a document; formatted text only, no graphics and no boxed text are displayed. What it will do,...
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mxytsplyk
Sep 30, 2012 8:09 am
As a side note, the iPhone version is published by Corel....
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em315
Sep 30, 2012 1:24 pm
You're referring to a different product: "WordPerfect Viewer" published by Corel and written by LawBox LLC, and based on an older version of the libwpd...
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em315
Sep 30, 2012 1:39 pm
Once again, it's the "WordPerfect Viewer" that's published by Corel for the iPhone and iPad and by LawSoft for the Mac. The "WPD Wizard" that's recently been...
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mxytsplyk
Sep 30, 2012 6:48 pm
For those interested, here is a link to article reviewing the earlier version of this app, along with a link to a review of the current version: ...
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John R
jrethorst
Oct 2, 2012 1:26 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/technology/australians-surge-in-quest-to-build-quantum-computer.html?ref=research John R....
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R.C
rjtc5
Oct 5, 2012 4:09 am
Running OS 10.7 on a MacBook Pro. I have 400-500 Wordperfect documents and would like to know if there is a way to index Wordperfect documents so Spotlight...
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C.W. Betts
maddthesane
Oct 5, 2012 5:03 am
Download and install the WordPerfect Spotlight plug-in. It should be on this group under files, as well as a QuickLook plug-in. ... [Non-text portions of this...
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Cyroth
cyrothendymion
Oct 10, 2012 11:45 am
Hello all - quick question. I'm running WP 3.5e on Panther via Mac OS Classic. A few months ago the drag-and-drop function stopped working. If I select a...
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John R
jrethorst
Oct 11, 2012 12:20 am
I had a similar problem, where drag-and-drop caused a crash. It disappeared, maybe about the time I upgraded to Tiger, although I didn't make the connection....
