Hi from Germany,

I have many, many documents (about 1000) using the .kwd - fileformat. I was always lucky with this fileformat and want to use it in future, too.

My productivity-pc is running KDE2.5 (Kubuntu 8.04) and I am sniffing to KDE4.x (Kubuntu 10.04) now. First of all I am missing the possibility to save files to other formats than .odt.... No rtf, no txt, no kwd...

Is there a possibility to switch on again the option to save files in .kwd ??

Best regards
Andreas

Hi,

the OpenDocument Format (.odt) is now the official fileformat for KWord and as such its the best format to save your documents in.
KWord is capable of reading various formats, including the old .kwd fileformat so you can just read those and then save it out as ODF.

This may be a bit painful for now but in the long term this is the best solution; ODf is the widest supported fileformat available (most office apps read it) and as such it will be around for a lot longer than the old format was.

Hope this answers your question

OK - so it is...

Is there a commandline-tool to convert the complete folder "as one piece" (it contains 1288 files in .kwd - fileformat)

Best regards - and many thanks for your reply!

Andreas

zander wrote:Hi,

the OpenDocument Format (.odt) is now the official fileformat for KWord and as such its the best format to save your documents in.
KWord is capable of reading various formats, including the old .kwd fileformat so you can just read those and then save it out as ODF.

This may be a bit painful for now but in the long term this is the best solution; ODf is the widest supported fileformat available (most office apps read it) and as such it will be around for a lot longer than the old format was.

Hope this answers your question

Interesting. I haven't used KOffice in a while, but there was a time when it was possible to pass an .rtf file around among KWord in Linux, OpenOffice in either Linux of Windows, and MS Word in Windows with absolutely no formatting issues. So it is possible to do the same thing with ODf? That might make KOffice worthwhile, especially if it is not as heavy as OpenOffice!

@jglen490
yes, ODF should do that better already than RTF. At least in the most recent versions of all of those applications.

Though it should, there are still problems. If I open a .kwd file, save it as .fodt and then open it with OO, everything is underlined. I haven't reported this as a bug as 2.2 is due out soon. So, if it hasn't been fixed in 2.2, I'll add it as a bug.

Also, if a .kwd file includes a graphic, this is not imported correctly (this is a known bug); then saving the file as .rtf and inserting the graphic manually (assuming you still have the original) is the only way to restore the original document in .odf.

Just as a note here.

ODF is NOT available in most MS Word versions, if I have to companies that do not use ODF as a standard, I will have to fall back on PDF. At this moment I am facing some difficulties as a company I am working with does not use PDF either, because all documents should be editable.

The want all documents in DOC, but since I do not approve of this, I would like to send them RTF. Now I found out I can not send either of them via KWord.

For me this is productivity loss, as I have to install OpenOffice.org to get things working again.

Can at least a filter for RTF be included?

I think (but don't know) that it will come in time; AFAIK one problem is a shortage of programmers.