Our handy batch conversion feature allows you convert all of your documents at once Once youve exported your WordPerfect document, you can edit the results in your word processor of choice. Drag and drop files into WPD Viewer, or open them directly. With the Grab tool, you can easily take a snapshot of any area of your desktop or Web browser, which is saved as a note that can be emailed, printed, saved as an image file, or sent to WordPerfect X6. WPD Viewer converts WordPerfect documents into PDF, RTF, or TXT. Right now you have Msoffice formats, which are fairly universal, but that's only because Msoffice is fairly universal. The Viewer lets you read Microsoft Word), WordPerfect, and image files. All of them should support it equally as well.
When you want to archive the documents or send documents to other people then you do a 'save as' or 'export to' to ODF format and then it won't matter what sort of application you have. So the idea eventually will be like if your using Word perfect or Msoffice or O rg or Abiword you use those application's native formats.
Its an online converter, so you can use it without installing any extra software to your computer just upload the WPD file, choose a conversion type, and then download the converted file back to your computer. (which is a nice lossless image format that supports alpha channels and has good compression) which like the ODF should be is ultra-portable because it's a Free software format. For WordPerfect files, convert the WPD file to DOC, DOCX, PDF, PNG, TXT, ODT, etc., with Zamzar. at least well) However both of them support 'saving as' PNG files. (neither app can read each other's formats though. You have a 'working' format, and then you have a distributable format.įor instance with Gimp I have XCF files for the native working format. So what is going to happen with office formats is the same thing that you deal with when your working with graphics. What the problem is is that you end up with application-specific items that can only be used in one or another system. Pretty much every application aviable will be able to import and export in this format, even Microsoft Office. The OASIS stuff (the ODF or Open Document Format) is designed so that it's as application independant as possible. Click to expand.Depends on what sort of format.