I am trying to convert a batch of WordPerfect files to PDF, ideally with the filename of each file displayed in a header. As Corel is the publisher of WordPerfect, I decided to download a trial version of their “PDF Fusion”. Dragging a WordPerfect file into the PDF Fusion app, however, produced an error of “-1”. Digging into the user guide, published on the “wordperfect.com” site, I discover that WordPerfect (WPD) is not one of the supported formats (you can start with Microsoft Word, Open Office, or WordPad files, however).
I think this deserves to be on the cover of Why you need a product manager magazine.
File under: Proud to be part of the software industry.
Corel just bought all those products, after they got killed by the competition.
Out of curiosity, other than for ad-hoc printing, what would be the point of converting flowing-text/ stream generally editable WordPerfect documents into concrete-sized PDF pages (editable chiefly in Adobe’s own editors)? Of all the formats present on by and large unpaged, scrolled web, the hard-pages PDF appears to be the most web-hostile one. It was NEVER designed to act as a display format, merely as a cheaper rendering method vs. that from the photosetters. I can barely think of a less suitable one for anything but hard copy.
I am sure that Adobe knows that, too, and has developed a RWD-like flowing/ screen-adaptable document format, which it keeps under wraps for the time when a competitor with similar one such appears. A document format that, unlike present online-RWD concepts, also works in self-contained, offline, distributable state.