Re: any path from Applix Words to OpenOffice?

[Robert Riches]

On 2009-11-24, Stan Bischof <st...@newserve.worldbadminton.com> wrote:
> Robert Riches <spamt...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Is there any reasonable path to take an Applix Words document and
>> convert it so it can be imported into OpenOffice? I tried
>> several methods, but they all badly mangled the formatting and/or
>> failed to transfer the content.
>>
>
> Maybe if you listed all the formats that Applix can
> output, someone here might see a possible path?
>
> Stan

Here's the list:

Frame MIF 2.0, 4.0, and 5.0 (.mif)
HTML
Interleaf 4.0 and 5.0 (.doc)
MS Word 2.0 (.doc)
MS Word 95/97/2000, 6.0 through RTF
MS word (DOS) (.msw)
RTF (.rtf)
WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 (.w50, .w51, .w60)

Thanks.

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Robert Riches
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[Robert Riches]

On 2009-11-25, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Robert Riches wrote:
>> On 2009-11-24, Stan Bischof <st...@newserve.worldbadminton.com> wrote:
>>> Robert Riches <spamt...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> Is there any reasonable path to take an Applix Words document and
>>>> convert it so it can be imported into OpenOffice? I tried
>>>> several methods, but they all badly mangled the formatting and/or
>>>> failed to transfer the content.
>>>>
>>> Maybe if you listed all the formats that Applix can
>>> output, someone here might see a possible path?
>>>
>>> Stan
>>
>> Here's the list:
>>
>> Frame MIF 2.0, 4.0, and 5.0 (.mif)
>> HTML
>> Interleaf 4.0 and 5.0 (.doc)
>> MS Word 2.0 (.doc)
>> MS Word 95/97/2000, 6.0 through RTF
>> MS word (DOS) (.msw)
>> RTF (.rtf)
>> WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 (.w50, .w51, .w60)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>

> Am I missing something? OO can read word 200 easily..

The "through RTF" means Applix creates a .rtf file, and the
Micro$oft program is supposed to read the .rtf file. I already
tried creating the RTF from Applix and reading that into
OpenOffice. The formatting is tremendously mangled. It would be
easier to rework the formatting from plain text than from the
RTF.

If I remember correctly, I tried _ALL_ the other file formats as
well. All had the same or worse problems.

Thank you, all who responded. It looks like there is no path
that works any better than the ones I had already tried, but
thank you for the suggestions.