On April 1, it was announced that Corel would start selling WordPerfect for Linux as a pilot project to assess customer demand. It is now available from the Corel store. This version is based on the WP8 for Linux series, which was alot more stable than the later winelib based versions. Linux Journal recently reviewed the updated WordPerfect for Linux. Editor’s Note: The Corel site is a little misleading – as noted above, this is NOT Word Perfect Office 12 – it is an updated version of WordPerfect for Linux.
WordPerfect for Linux Available from Corel
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does anyone outside of the legal field even use wordperfect anymore?
they could have been the first on the scene with an enterprise level office system, but they dropped the ball, took money away from the development, and then dropped support all together.
Er better late then never I guess….NO this is just pathetic! Why not take the time to port WP Office 12, so theyd actually be taken seriously.
But it would make a lot more sense for them to spend their resources on getting CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and Painter 8 over to linux. Linux allready has several good word processors but it lacks of good graphics apps. I would certainly buy them, even if linux isn’t my main OS.
I wonder, do you think this is compatable with MacOS X?
>I wonder, do you think this is compatable with MacOS X?
No, it isnt.
I agree with you they missed a really good chance to dominate office packages on Linux/Unix. I used wp8 on Corel Linux and on Mandrake then they stopped making it so I moved from that to Openoffice and can’t see myself changing anytime soon, especially if i have to pay extra for the privilege. The only thing I miss is a package similar to access for maintaining small databases.
” does anyone outside of the legal field even use wordperfect anymore? ”
No, the legal field now uses StarOffice and OpenOffice. All the pro’s use Microsoft Office.
Er better late then never I guess….NO this is just pathetic! Why not take the time to port WP Office 12, so theyd actually be taken seriously.
Do you have any idea how much work is involved in porting WP Office 12. The only way to get a port in a reasonable time is to use WineLib. This is exactly what Corel has done with WordPerfect 9 for Linux, and it is slow and buggy. The WP Unix versions were always very fast and stable, so I am glad this is WP8-based. I am not sure whether this is based on 8.0 or 8.1. But the freely downloadable personal edition is really crippled, so I this WP from the Corel site.
Some people prefer OpenOffice. As much as I like OO.org, it is big and a bit slow. WordPerfect 8 is really fast and works well on NetBSD too
(at least the freely available version). Besides that: word processors could do 10 years ago what I need them for 
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By the way, a screenshot of WP8 running on NetBSD can be found on the NetBSD gallery page: http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/
and add features that WP 12 has then that is fine, and it will probably be a lot faster.
To easily migrate from WordPerfect 3.5 for MOS9 to MS Word X for MOSX?
This is priced cheap enough that I am tempted to try it, but I wonder how it compares with current offerings and how good it really is.
I am currently a very happy user of Koffice.
Anyone know what the fonts look like? Are they anti-aliased? The only thing stopping me from using StarOffice on a *nix rather than Windows is that the rendering can be ever so slightly off. I know this sounds petty and a little shallow, but when you stare at a Word Processor all day for a living, it matters.
This is not WP12 either, it is WP8 with updated WP12 libs. Still has that ugly motif look.
adobe tested the water with a linux beta of framemaker. it didnt get past beta. who wants a beta? and of software that is dead anyway? pagemaker maybe. indesign even better.
refer to my post under the solaris news about career managers and decision makers breaking successful technology companies.
They stopped Linux development when MS gave them bailout money and OOo has filled that need. Move on. If they want to do something develop an OS X version of Wordperfect with structured document capabilities to replace the hole FrameMaker is leaving.
I used to use Word Perfect over Word back in the day.
… I have converted to OpenOffice.org on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows and won’t be switching back.
I completely agree with the previous posters… Corel could have dominated the Linux office suite market, but blew their chance. Yes, OOo is somewhat slow, but it is getting better with each release, and already does everything I need to do with an office suite.
They’d better release CorelDRAW for Linux!
They are now “officially” selling what they had been pushing on ebay? This is a slightly modified version of WP8.1 ? This after their press realease talking about WP 12(suite) for Linux ? What exactly do they wish to “test” by releasing software which is what 5 years old? No anti-alaised text, no integration witht the existing print system(cups)-what you mean I have to rename dos printer drivers, if they even exist, for my ultra modern printer.
This is worse than a joke-this is an insult. I had considered purchasing a copy of a new WP for Linux because the department I am working is still has many windows people using WP. I thought wow- maybe I could get the new WP and we could ease our transition and provide backwards compatability. Well so much for that thought. People aren’t going to by this stinking pile of xxxx, outdated-ancient actually, and this will what? prove that there is not Linux market for WP ?
Their marketing people flat out lied to the Linux community about making WP 12 available for Linux.And what kind of sound buisness decision chooses to sell software that they could not even give away to see if the market is receptive to future investments ? What pay 29$ for that piece of junk ?-oh I used this version, the one they are selling now, back when it was distributed in demo form on SuSE CD’s-I used it for almost 10 days before uninstalling it-it was horrible. And that was 5 years ago. What an insult.
Corel-go take your software and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine….
Corel-go take your software and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine….
I assume that would be Windows server market 😉 (its a pun, SUN, shine, shoving, bah)
Anyway, winelib IS in a position where it can be used for something a little more substaintial than playing solitaire. I’m sure, if given the time, Wordperfect 12 Suite could have been ported or atleast make Wine compatible with Wordperfect Suite to allow the unwashed masses to run Paradox, Quatro Pro, Presentations and Wordperfect from their Linux box.