Possible to open WordPerfect file with AppleWorks?

[cleo]

An organization I've begun working with uses WordPerfect (not sure what version - .wpd extension). Is there any way to get AppleWorks to recognize these files?

[DavidCar]

I just checked, and I cannot open a .wpd with Appleworks 6.2.9, or with TextEdit.

[DavidCar]

Googling on Appleworks and .wpd turned up only complaints and no solutions. One comment mentioned that Nisus Writer Express opens .wpd files perfectly. Google that to find a downloadable trial version.

[Sun Baked]

Used to be in the claris version, and I could almost swear I saw the newer MacLink translators for AppleWorks sitting in one of the translator folders after doing a search.

Heck I even used it to open some .wpd files.

But since reinstalling/updating all the software on the machine, the wpd translator is gone.

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Which basically leaves the full version of MacLink Plus (http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html) instead of the MacLink and/or Claris XTND widget Apple used to include. :(

[cleo]

Oy, what a pain. It does seems like there are a *lot* of people out there with this problem... I wonder why some good (smart) soul doesn't write a translator?

Anyway, thank you all for the education. I opted to use Adobe's online .pdf creator, because they give you 5 free conversions and I need the info in that file to do some work this weekend. In the future I guess I'll have to get my colleagues to try to remember to save as rich text. Bleh.

Thanks again.