View WordPerfect for Windows files with formatting

Sep 07, '06 07:30:04AM

Contributed by: deef

As explained in this earlier, related hint, I have hundreds of WordPerfect for Windows files with contents that I don't need to edit, but often view. Using the previous hint, they can be viewed in Terminal, but they lose all their formatting. (They can also be opened with NeoOffice or AbiWord, but both of these are fairly slow when I just want to quickly view a file's contents.) To solve the no formatting issue, I created a contextual menu item which converts a WordPerfect document to HTML, and then opens it in a browser window. Here's what you need to make it work:

Once those are installed, add this command to your OnMyCommand command list, and you're ready to go -- just select a WordPerfect file in the Finder, control-click on it, and choose 'Preview WordPerfect file in browser' from the contextual menu.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]

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