Converting .lwp Lotus Word Pro file to .pdf
Had to share this. Friend came on chat; said he has received a press release in some strange .lwp format. Does not open in MS Word. What next?
I offered to do it. Was sure there would be some online converter for converting anything to anything. First I managed to find what .lwp meant – it is Lotus Word Pro. Why the hell would someone mail him a press release in that format? If you end up with one, best option is to tell the person to Save As the file again as a .doc, and mail it to you again.
But my search proved fruitless. Too many people are facing the same problem, and it seems there was some Lotus utility available for conversion on some FTP URL earlier, but its not there anymore.
Try again. Experts-Exchange, that most irritating of all sites when you are searching for a solution seems to have some answer, but it is a paid site, and you can’t get in. You think I am going to take a membership so I can go there and read ‘experts’? Nuts.
Next I came across ABC Amber Lotus 1-2-3 Converter. I did not have a clue, but I downloaded it and tried it out. No luck. Seems this is a tool to convert into MS Excel.
Next attempt worked. Found a PDF converter site that looked promising. Easy process, they asked for my email – don’t like that, but I suppose its a fair deal for a free service. Uploaded the file there, and conversion happened in 1 minute! Super. The file is now in PDF, not in MS Word. But at least now we can read it.
Mission partially accomplished.
If you know of a a proper converter for Lotus WordPro to MS Word, please leave a comment below. Others, either try the PDF converter linked above, and then see if you can convert the PDF to MS Word somewhere else. Ta da!
hi iam sunny i wanto convert lpw file to pdf
Similar problem:- I have a book with embedded Table of Contents and Index written in Lotus Word Pro which I’d like to convert to Word 2007 – keeping the Table of Contents and Index “live”.
How can this be done? If converted via PDF, will the embedded “live” features be lost?
I tried three different alternative approaches:
1. Installed KeyView for Lotus (free app). Just copy/paste from KeyView to a blank MS Office Word document.
Worked fine.
2. Printed from KeyView to Adobe PDF virtual printer, then exported to Word document or/and Rich Text Format (rtf).
Worked pretty good, in both formats.
3. Installed QuickView Plus, which openned lwp file and then copy/paste into MS Word blank document. Worked best.
No need for KeyView, although QuickView Plus is 30 days trial/buy software. For casual circumstances, it proved to be the best method for formated text.
As for problems like asked about, my opinion is to use conversion to Adobe pdf (method #2).
It works, man! I had the same frustration as you’d mentioned, to the letter…finally found your suggestion, uploaded a .lwp file and bingo! It was converted and in my mailbox within 5 minutes. The only ‘downside’ is that I have a dozen more .lwp files to convert, and the site requires 30 minutes between submissions…unless I want to buy their converter. Oh, well. TANSTAAFL, as Heinlein used to say.
Thax for the info, helped a lot.
http://www.freepdfconvert.com/default.asp
worked fine
thankx a lot guys for your information
Nobody noticed when our Lotus Suite files were converted to Lotus KeyView (an imaging application for when the software is removed) that important bits of the files including graphics didn’t port over. They were there in KeyView but invisible. Ran these LWP files through an on-line PDF converter, and they all returned — not Acrobat 6, this doesn’t do the same thing. Run the resultant PDF thru a PDF to Word convertor (change the file from an RTF to DOC if you have to) and Bingo.
Use Lotus Symphony – Free Office Suite from IBM which supports all document formats interchangabley
Lotus Symphony works just fine. No need to convert to pdf and then convert again
Have you tried using Open Office Suite. I think you can even convert Lotus files into pdf or Office files using it.
Thank you so much!!! It was really a big help!!!
Nope, OpenOffice does not open Lotus Word Pro file. Lotus Symphony probably works and it is freeware like OpenOffice.
Thanks very much.
I received a quotation in lwp format so needed to view it somehow.