Basic scripting questions: automating import of legacy docum

DEVONthink Automation
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Hi,
I’m trying to figure out how to move legacy WordPerfect files into DTPro. I’ve got a bit of experience with scripting and simple programming in awk, perl, and python. I have to stress the ‘bit’. I’ve figured things out to do the job then moved on.

Since I’m new to the Mac environment and DTPro I find myself overwhelmed by all the possibilities and too often have just gone done one way that looked promising only to find out it’s a dead end.

Has anyone done this? I’d be interested how people have tackled the two phases: 1) getting the files out of WordPerfect format into rtf
2) automating the entry of the rtf files in DTPro

For 1) I think OpenOffice is an option or just going back to WordPerfect and running a script there to export the files I want.

For 2) I’m really at a loss. When I’ve searched and scanned the DT user forums, people seem to be saying that you can’t move rtf from one application to another.

thanks in advance,
Francis

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If you’re only interested in the plain text contents, then this might work:

Ensure that the WordPerfect files have the HFS file type ‘WPD4’. Then it should be possible to import them and plain text contents should be created.

Warning:
That’s undocumentated, untested, incomplete, might work or not :smiley: