[documentliberation-discuss] Re: [out of list] two docx conversion test results on LibreOffice

On 04/23/2014 12:43 PM, alonso wrote:
> Le 23 avr. 2014 à 10:11, Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com 
> <mailto:philipz85@hotmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> > > Concerning libwps as I do not have any way to launch the latest 
> > > versions of Microsoft Works for PC, also having
> > > some files converted in pdf will be clearly better….
> >
> > I would assume you'd be able to run works on wine. Found someone who 
> > thinks they may have an old laptop with it on it, so if you could 
> > tell me what kind of samples you need, i could have him create them.
> Yes, I have already used dos/wine emulation to launch some oldest 
> versions of Microsoft Works
> but not the latest versions, mainly by lack of time, motivation and 
> because I am not sure that I can really
> consider that the newest versions of Microsoft Works are abandonware …

Well i think version 6 to 9 maybe the ones to focus on as MS Office can 
produce that version of works files. I checked version 9 compatibility 
on wine and it was rated silver in the end of 2012, so i assume any 
other versions should run smoothly.

> > > > > > Jay Philips
>
> --
> Amicalement,
> Laurent


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