Re: Corel Wp 8 (to FM 556 on Win95)

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wim,

Corel WordPerfect 8 is our word processor of choice.  [I don't want to catch
too many arrows, but as far as I am concerned, it is a much better program
than MS-Wrod, even though the MS product is more widely used.]

We move a tremendous amount of material from WP8 into FM 556 on Win95.  NOTE
THAT I AM SAYING FM 556.  There were more problems with FM 553.

The first step that we take is to "TAG and STRIP" the WP8 file.  Most of the
material that comes from our authors is a real hodgepog.  We have developed
text-based tagging macros that handle tagging of italics (i.e. pubnames and
emphasis), bold (emphasis only), etc.  The result looks like
"XXXITALPUBONFramers MagazineXXXITALPUBOFF".  (We then use FrameScript to
apply character tagging.)  We use the same type of system for some sorts of
paragraph tagging.  Following that, we STRIP -- highlight everything and take
it to ONE font, size, etc. We remove virtually all other types of codes.  We
do no attempt to extract styles -- because OUR authors are not consistent
enough.  Much of this is handled by macros.

Most of the time, we simply 'File, Import' the native WP8 file into FM and
when FM presents the file type dialog, CHOOSE WP7.  (NOTE that is WP7 -- there
is no WP8 available in FM 556 in Win95.)

However, we have found that if the WP8 file contains Tsrt codes (essentially
forced soft returns -- i.e. forced line breaks), that these won't convert
properly.  They either come out as hard returns, or the two words become
connected -- I don't remember which.

If the WP8 document contains such, you have two choices.  
  1)  Remove/fix/text-placeholder the Tsrt codes.  The placeholder
      method simply is a find/replace [Tsrt] for "zzz", then in 
      FM, "zzz" for a line break.

  OR 2)  SaveAs to RTF and bring that into FM.

All this may be useless to you.  You may have a more complex document that
includes graphics.  In that case, I don't know -- we have never had such a
document; we would not make one ourselves and we won't accept such from our
authors.

Note that the Windows WP8 file format is "supposed to be" the save for WP6.1,
WP7, and WP8.  However, there are a few features in WP8 that are not backwards
compatible.  However, if your documents are not highly complex, the three
formats are essentially the same.

-- 
Jay Smith

e-mail: jay@jaysmith.com

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Wim Hooghwinkel wrote:
> 
> Anyone knows if exists an import filter for Corel WP 8 files into
> Framemaker?
> 
> ( we now use Word to convert, we receive WP8 files from our client)
> 
> Wim Hooghwinkel
> DTP
> tel: +31 (0) 23 - 548 48 91
> 
> mailto:wimh@scriptware.nl
> 
> Scriptware bv
> tel: +31 (0) 23 - 548 48 84
> fax: +31 (0) 23 - 548 48 85
> email: info@scriptware.nl
> http://www.scriptware.nl
>

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