Importing WP5 files

[_Donna_Stadter_]

I haven't been able to figure our how to import old WordPerfect wp5 files into my templates. I have no trouble in the Frame 7 version. Can you give me some help on this. Fortunately I still have the FrameMaker 7 version installed on my computer.

[Arnis Gubins]

Donna,

Are you using FM8? If so, then the import filters for a number of
legacy products have been commented out in the maker.ini file.

Open this file in a text editor and remove the semi-colon ";" at the
start of a line to un-comment it.

The filters that you'll need are No.s 216-220.

[Art Campbell]

Or download the current Word Perfect evaluation version from the Corel site, use it to save out files as RTF, and open those in FM8.

Art

[_Donna_Stadter_]

Yes I am using FrameMaker 8. I'm not sure what line I should take the semi colon off. How do I get the filters 216-220?

Thanks
Donna

[Arnis Gubins]

Donna,

;220="0070" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 5.0"
aw4w.xxx ^.wp
;219="0071" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 5.1"
aw4w.xxx ^.wp
;218="0480" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 6.0"
aw4w.xxx ^.wp
;217="0481" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 6.1"
aw4w.xxx ^.wp
;216="0482" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 7.0"
aw4w.xxx ^.wp


Remove the semi-colons at the front of these lines in your maker.ini
file. These entries start at line 772 in my file. The starting line
may be slightly different in your version.