my beloved wordperfect

[macavenger]

Tried all the other applications, the best I could get was Word's "recover text from any file" import option. Unfortunately, that left out some rather important parts. Opening in text edit gave a screen full of giberish with the relevant text interspersed throughout (sorry about the spelling), but it would be a pain to extract it, and again there seemed to be some important parts missing. I finally broke down and reinstalled WP and classic, and managed to save the files as rtf.

[starmouse]

grain of salt taken. And no, you weren't really helpful . It sounds like, as a designer, you're more concerned with the formatting and pagemaking aspects of the programs you're using. Universe on course.

I'm more into straight-up text content, and care less about being able to infinitely scale the thing than being able to negotiate a several-hundred-page document quickly, the way I'm used to doing. I appreciate WP is NOT what you want to be using if you're trying to make really elegant-looking, well-arranged pages. What I like about it is the way it works to make a big hunk of text. I like being able to have three or four drafts stack themselves side-by-side at a keystroke, or zip my way smoothly through half a book with cmnd-up/dn. The dottedlinepagebreaks that can make formatting difficult for you, really help me by keeping the document I'm seeing on the screen as I work whole and unified. The couple inches of blank space that Word or similar can make in the middle of a paragraph tends to throw me off. I like seeing a book appear in an unbroken ribbon, while still knowing where the page breaks will end up.

I'm glad you've found a program you're so happy with. If you think InDesign (Adobe, yes?) has functionality that I'm looking for, I'd be interested to check it out. In the meantime, I think I'm going to settle for Nisus Writer Express in draft mode, supplemented by Copywrite and Stickies.

[Natobasso]

If you just want to type in raw text on the mac, why not just use TextEdit or AppleWorks?

[starmouse]

Originally Posted by Cheryl

Starmouse, did you install the updater to WP?

Sorry about the radio silence, I was out of the country. I've deleted the preferences and reinstalled from the original sparkly v3.5 CD. Somehow along the way I managed to disable my system help menus, and I can't remember/figure out, how to allocate more memory. Help?

Thank you so much, by the way. Sorry again for the slooooooow reply to your prompt and helpful one.

[Cheryl]

You do not have an option to allocate more memory in OS X. The system takes care of that automatically.

How much memory do you have installed on the computer?

You can check to see how much memory WP is using while in Classic. With Classic running and WP open, go to the system Preferences (light switch on the dock) > Classic> Memory/Versions.

[starmouse]

it says '838/6104 KB'

when I open a 97k file, it jumps to about 1044/, and when I try to open an 85k file it goes to about the same place, and gives me a disk full error (-34).

here are my stats, if that helps:


Información del hardware:

Modelo de ordenador: iBook G4
Tipo de CPU: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Número de CPU: 1
Velocidad de la CPU: 1 GHz
Caché de nivel 2 (por CPU): 256 KB
Memoria: 640 MB
Velocidad del bus: 133 MHz
Versión de la ROM de arranque: 4.7.7f0

I've got 39.74GB left on my harddrive, from 60.

[Cheryl]

Do you have any other programs open at the time you get the error? Try quitting the OS X programs you have open and then give it a try.

[jrethorst]

Originally Posted by starmouse

it seems like more and more compatibility issues keep popping up. The latest and most aggravating is an error that appears when I try to open certain files, or just when I leave it idle for too long in the background: "Disk Full Error (-34)" The size of the file doesn't seem to matter; it will open a 934k file, but not a 96k file. I've got about 40gb of empty space on my hard drive. My disk is *not* full . . . basically, I'm stumped and annoyed. What I really want is a permanent fix that will make wp stable in Classic so that I can keep using my little darling forever'n'ever

The last version of the program, still a free download, fixes the disk full error and runs without problems in OSX Classic. The program and one necessary updater, for OS 8/9/Classic, are at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/. That site also hosts dictionary/thesaurus files for 18 languages, third-party utilities including a Spotlight plugin for Tiger, advanced regular expression and document compare/version tracking, plus about a hundred others, and an active support forum with 1300 members, including several expert users who, like you, just want to keep using WP.