[ltp] Lotus Office

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Hi Richard and All

Sorry for the name confusion on my part. Each organization appears to have a 
different setup.

Yes I now after some exploration believe that it is called LotusSmart Suit.

Seems that when I bought the computer I got a MS version with the computer. I 
did have to send in a coupon but that was all.

Anyway I was thinking if the are or were giving away a MS version there there 
may be a Linux version.

So far I have not been able to find that on the web site but then IBM teckies 
told me about IBM's Linux website years before I was able to access it or 
anyway part of it. Seems it was for internal use only.

If there is no SmartSuit Linux version then that is OK as I have discovered 
that it has the same issue with the spellchecker not functioning as Open 
Office does.

To refresh your memory the initial inquiry was because for some strange reason 
some files refuse to spell check indicated all words are to be skipped. 

Once a file reaches this stage none of my computers or programs will spell 
check it without loss of formating. This has been verified in SO 5.1, Kword. 
Open Office 1.1, MS Office XP, MS Word 98, MS Word 2000, and possible a few 
more. 
You will notice Abbie Word is missing from the list but I do not have Abbie 
Word set up correctly; there is some issue with fonts that I have not worked 
on yet.

Also this only happens to about 10% of files which are almost always critical 
files as they are the ones edited the most.

This issue never creates a problem on initial typing but always surfaces after 
a file has been saved and edited several time.

I place a full description of the issue on the Open Office users list without 
response so I will not go into it here futher. If some one has interest in 
the complete details I will of course gladly send them the details.

Thanks

Frank

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:35, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear Frank,
>
> If you mean Lotus SmartSuite, I can confirm that SmartSuite Millennium
> installs/runs OK with WINE. (The free version is OK, you don't need
> cross-over office, you can use a "fake windows" installation). This may
> help you.
>
> I don't know of any way to convert lotus format files into something
> else under Linux. Open Office.org doesn't do it, and nor does
> antiword/catdoc. Running "strings" on the file is a quick hack to read
> its content.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
> Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > For some time I have been struggling with Open Office file compability
> > between the MS side of this box and the Linux side.
> >
> > One of the big issue has been spell check and thesaurus in both MS Office
> > and Open Office in Linus.
> >  At times a file will some how indicate that no words are to be spelled
> > checked for some unknown reason. This occurs always with the same file in
> > both MS Office and Linux Open Office but never in MS Lotus Office.
> >
> > That caused me to wonder if there is a downloadable version of Linux
> > Lotus Office and to start looking on the Lotus site for such.
> > Unfortunately I was unable to find Lotus Office for Linux and/or to
> > understand that I had found it because of a variety collection of unknown
> > names. I can not ascertain what I am looking for.
> >
> > Does anybody know if there is a downloadable Lotus Office for Linux and
> > if so what the URL would be.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Frank
>
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