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Offline MugoTopic starter

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Hey Folks,

I urgently need to convert some FinalWriter Docs, to be read on the PC. The problem is that Final Writer can only export as an ASCII file, and this way all the formating, and pictures, etc, are gone.
Do someone knows if there's a way for doing this ? There's any filter to export in any other format in FinalWriter ???
Thanks in advance !

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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2004, 10:10:41 PM »
This is not exactly what you wanted but should (hopefully) give you something on the other side to work on.

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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2004, 10:28:39 PM »
hit print
select in  print to  Postscript file.


 

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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2004, 11:10:20 PM »
PDF files are definately readable, but not easily editable.  PS files might be in the same boat.  I'd try using the RTF Writer available here.  Or, you can possibly check out the FW group on yahoo groups.
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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2004, 10:16:56 AM »
The latest version of FinalWriter has an RTF export and import filter incorporated that works rather well.
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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2004, 10:47:32 AM »
It all depends on which version of FinalWriter you have.

FinalWriter97 includes a RTF export option, which is of course able to be loaded into Micro$haft Word. The RTF file format, IIRC, was originally created by M$ to be an "open" wordprocessing format back when M$ were not such a$$holes, and hence became a standard. That being said, you would need FW97 to be able to r/w a RFT file, which would make it possible to transfer most of the formatting, but unfortunalely none of the graphics.

The best solution, as mentioned earlier, is to create a PDF file. One thing you can do is print to a postscript file from FinalWriter, and it does not matter which version of FW, as all of them are able to create postscript files, and then go to http://www.ps2pdf.com and follow the directions there to make a PDF file. I've used this site to successully create a PDF, and it works great! This way you will be able to keep all of your formatting and graphics the way you created them in FinalWriter.

Hope this helps!
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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2004, 12:06:54 PM »
FinalWriter, as in Softwood?  Is the only way of getting a recent version through second-hand ebay?
 

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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2004, 12:11:35 PM »
GGSdata has FW97 in Swedish though, but maybe you can use some other locale on it. Just pop him an email.  :-)
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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2004, 12:35:14 PM »
I don't see it on their website...
 

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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2004, 01:50:29 PM »
Uhm, Finalwriter 97 is not very good: it is slow on RTG displays... :-x
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Re: PLEASE !!! How to convert FinalWriter to Word, or something PC World ???
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2004, 02:57:15 PM »
Hi,

Hey, you are the BEST !!!!!
Thank very much for all of your support !!
I've done the thing through the PS-PDF method, and the result was perfect ! :)
Again thank you all !!!