WordPerfect Converters

[vicwriter]

Atlantis really shines but would be even better with WordPerfect converters. WordPerfect has had the same file format for more than 10 years (unlike MS Word!) so incorporating a converter shouldn't be too much trouble. As a professional writer who has lived in WordPerfect for more than a dozen years, I won't switch to Atlantis unless I can import my old WP docs without having to export out of WP first.

Please?

[Robert]

Atlantis really shines but would be even better with WordPerfect converters. WordPerfect has had the same file format for more than 10 years (unlike MS Word!) so incorporating a converter shouldn't be too much trouble. As a professional writer who has lived in WordPerfect for more than a dozen years, I won't switch to Atlantis unless I can import my old WP docs without having to export out of WP first.

Please?

Greetings--
Have you tried a simple copy/paste from WordPerfect to Atlantis?
Even better would be to use the Atlantis "Clippy Bank collects clipboard data" feature. You'd only have to copy from WordPerfect.
Your WordPerfect document(s) would be automatically pasted into the Atlantis Clippy Bank for further processing.
Cheers
Robert

[vicboy]

Thanks, Robert, for your generous suggestion. Cut and paste is just too much work with the thousands of documents that I need to be able to access randomly as part of my work. I also need to be able to "Save As" WordPerfect format now and then.

Cheers!

[Robert]

Thanks, Robert, for your generous suggestion. Cut and paste is just too much work with the thousands of documents that I need to be able to access randomly as part of my work. I also need to be able to "Save As" WordPerfect format now and then.

Greetings--
WordPerfect file conversion is notoriously problematic. Here is an excerpt from a Microsoft MVP site page at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordP ... erters.htm:

WordPerfect's embedded code formatting instructions lend themselves to a degree of convolution in unskilful hands that just makes my head hurt, and there is nothing that can be done about this and about the features idiosyncratic to WordPerfect (often themselves artefacts of their formatting model) that have no near equivalents in Word, and vice versa.
I hope this gives you a better idea of what the issues are.

You'll find another interesting article on the pitfalls of WordPerfect file conversions at http://www.lacba.org/lalawyer/tech/comp2-99.html. Here is an excerpt from that page:

Conversion does not appear at first glance to be problematic, since Word and WordPerfect do the same thing-process words. Words are just words, or so one would like to think. Although both applications can produce nearly any document a law firm needs to produce, the file format architectures for the two programs are about as compatible as cats and dogs.

As you can see, things are not so obvious and easy as it might appear at first shot.
However there is a Corel WordPerfect to Word converter available from http://www.ualberta.ca/HELP/word/wpFAQ_6.html ("converting to and from Word 97 format")
If you can convert your WordPerfect files to the MS Word DOC format, you should be able to open these in Atlantis.
You will also find a free "WordPerfect for Windows 5.x, 6.x to Word for Windows 6.0 Converter" at http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/acua/usu/wpconv.htm.
Finally, there are a number of paying software available from the Web claiming to convert about anything without any problem. You might want to give them a try. You'll find them googling for "Wordpefect converter".
Cheers
Robert