.odt support in NWP 1.1

[Sascha Erni]

Hi there,

from the product page:

Pro will also read Word (.doc, .docx), Word Perfect, Open Document (.odt) and AbiWord documents.

Am I right to assume that Open Document support is only available on Leopard? At any rate, NWP doesn’t open my ODT documents on Tiger.

Could anybody who got .odt support working with NWP tell me about how well it works? I’m considering upgrading to Leo, and if this works “pretty well”, that may be one more reason for the switch.

Cheers,
-Sascha

[Hamid]

[...]Am I right to assume that Open Document support is only available on Leopard?
[...]

Yes, as mentioned in the Newsletter:

Oh, and you can read .docx and .odt files if you are using Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.x).

http://www.nisus.com/news/newsletter/nl080620.php

[Sascha Erni]

Thanks for the hint to the newsletter, I’ve subscribed now.

Anybody for the second part of my question? How well does ODT support work with Nisus? I wouldn’t need much, just some manuscripts (i. e. no tables, not images, no figures) to be read and edited, including headers and footers …

Cheers,
-Sascha

[mrennie]

Hi Sascha,

.odt support is quite basic in Leopard, comparable, or perhaps slightly inferior to, Word support in prior and current releases of Mac OS X. If you only need basic text support, you'll be fine; complex content is not supported. I've just created a test document in OpenOffice.org, with a header and a footer, and none of them got imported into Nisus. Also, the body text seems to have lost its style definitions; in other words, do not upgrade to Leopard because of the .odt support alone, as you're bound to be disappointed by it.

[Sascha Erni]

Thanks, mrennie! I will keep this in mind.

Cheers,
-Sascha

[greenmorpher]

For the best translation, it would be easier and better to download Neo Office and "save as" to .rtf wouldn't it? Presumably NWP would then open the .rtf without difficulty. Or am I being naive (again!)?

Cheers, Geoff

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[mrennie]

Hi Geoff,

no, you're not being naïve, this is indeed the best solution. At the same time, this method implies having to use two apps instead of one in order to use the document in its entirety in Nisus Writer Pro.

[Sascha Erni]

Hi Geoff,

that’s exactly the way I’ve dealt with ODT up to now. But I was wondering, prior to converting some 30-50 documents (stuff I wrote on Linux) whether NWP could deal with the docs as-is.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll stick to the guns, then.

Cheers,
-Sascha