Re: Conversion filters (was NB Win availability)

[Dorothy Day day@xxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Robert Hemenway wrote:

> To Ed Curtis and Leslie Bialler--
>
> About WordPort:
>
> A Windows program. Converts to and from XyWrite II and up, along with
> practically all word processors. Price $149. Whew! I worked with it for a
> time last year and found it probably the best of the conversion utilities,
.....

> Here?s what I noted down about it early last year: WordPort appears to be
> the current standard. But a web search turns up more references to it in
> Canada, New Zealand, Germany than in the U.S. And ZD Net shows no
> references, no reviews. This may be because Microsoft is so ubiquitous here
> that there's little interest in conversion utilities. Seems to be
> industrial software, not personal.
>
> Most recent version is 8.0. Mine is 7.3, runs on Win 3.1 under OS/2, and
> converts both from and to all versions of XyW and Nota Bene.
.....

>
> At 04:10 PM 11/4/99 -0500, leslie bialler wrote:
> >
> >Ed Curtis wrote:
> >> How do you save a XyWrite III+ file as an RTF file?
> >
> >Ed,
> >
> >You need conversion filters. These were bundled into later versions of
> >XyWrite, but as I recall they were not bundled into 3+. The filters
> >bundled with XyWrite 4 were made by Word for Word, which was later sold
> >to Adobe, later sold to INSO, who did nothing with them, and are now
> >extinct.

Except for the fact that INSO used them to further enhance QuckView
Plus, whose filters are now better than ever, but just for viewing, not
actually converting.

> >I understand from other posts I've read here that there is another
> >filtering program but I don't know anything about it. It is called, as I
> >remember, Word Port

And WordPort is the program now used for file import/export in Nota Bene
for Windows, wnich explains why the conversions are so good (except of
course for Word files saved with the indefensible Fast Save).

	Dorothy


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