Short: Word 8 filter for PageStream Author: tomjoad@muenster.de (Ruediger Hanke) Uploader: tomjoad muenster de (Ruediger Hanke) Type: text/dtp Version: 1.0 Requires: PageStream 3.x/4.x, 68020+ Architecture: m68k-amigaos Distribution: Aminet Note that this is a prerelease, published due to many requests. It is not the final thing. That's also why there's no real documentation in this archive. I will try to finish it as soon as possible, but there are things with higher priorities right now. The filter loads the main flowtext of Word 8 documents. This should be Word 97-Word 2000 currently (I think). Complex (fast-saved) files are currently not supported. There are no real requirements. If your Amiga runs PageStream, the filter should work. No FPU required this time. To install, copy the file Word8.tfilter to SoftLogik:Filters and you're done. It is a text filter only, so you must create an article, place the text cursor in it and choose "Insert Text..." from the menu. The filter currently does not load any text formattings. The controls in the window should be self-explaining except maybe "Apply Styles Only". If this option is enabled, the filter will apply character and paragraph formats as they are in the original Word document. That means you can quickly give large documents the format of your choice by defining the same styles as in the original Word doc. Support for some special characters (typographical quotes, ellipses, en- and em-dashes) is not yet finished, but the most important chars should already be supported. An update will follow. Text formattings will be imported in a future version, as this is apparently wished by many PageStream users. However, I only can work on it on weekends, so please bear with me. If you've got trouble with it, contact me. Rüdiger Hanke tomjoad@muenster.de