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Topic: It's 2019 and somebody sent me a .wpd file today

beckyderp !TInYDicKMI started this discussion 7 years ago #85,206

WHY

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #976,867

Nostalgia, or ignorance to Apache Open Office.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 13 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #976,870

WordPerfect still exists!

Anonymous C double-posted this 7 years ago, 14 seconds later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #976,871

it is the future of word processing ok

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 24 seconds later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #976,872

becky Wordperfect was invented by the Mormons. Jesus may still be found of Wordperfect.

Your favorite website says

Faithful customers
Among the remaining avid users of WordPerfect are many law firms and government offices, which favor WordPerfect features such as macros, reveal codes, and the ability to access a large range of formatting options such as left-right block indent directly with key combinations rather than having to click through several layers of submenus as Microsoft Word often requires,

the fact is that the user interface has stayed almost identical from WPWin 6 through WP X5 (2010) and that file formats have not changed, as incompatible new formats would require keeping both obsolete software versions and obsolete hardware around just to access a few old documents. Corel now caters to these markets, with, for example, a major sale to the United States Department of Justice in 2005.

A related factor is that WordPerfect Corporation was particularly responsive to feature requests from the legal profession, incorporating many features particularly useful to that niche market and those features have been continued in subsequent versions usually directly accessible with key combinations.


Apparently you're not one of those many law firms.

USA Nuke sites produce documents in .wpd and they are stored on unique Floppy Disks of the very large format. (Easy to handle and hard to steal)

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #976,893

that's smart of wordperfect not to fuck with interface, unlike microsoft that can't fucking leave well enough alone, "improving" it until I just don't give a fuck anymore

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 8 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #976,978

> It's 2019 and somebody sent me a .wpd file today

They're testing you. It's a group of time traveling word processing and font nerds. Sent it back in Lotus Word Pro format to show them you mean business.

Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 31 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #976,983

I thought lawyers liked WordPerfect?

beckyderp !TInYDicKMI (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 3 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #976,993

@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
Well, apparently this dumb broad does

bitch ass joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #976,994

@previous (beckyderp !TInYDicKMI)
why are you calling yourself a dumb broad ?

beckyderp !TInYDicKMI (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #976,995

@previous (bitch ass)
O snap!

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,022

@976,994 (bitch ass)
Hey I was gonna make this post!!!

Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 7 years ago, 36 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,030

@976,993 (beckyderp !TInYDicKMI)
I thought it had, like, special features for siting cases and taking dispositions and shit.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 7 years ago, 26 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,031

@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
> siting

Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,033

@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
sighting*

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,042

You still can't beat WordPerfects auto kern function

MR STEVEN MNUCHIN joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 23 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,050

@previous (J)
Umm kerning is done by the type designer not the application

Research Assistant II replied with this 7 years ago, 17 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #977,055

@previous (MR STEVEN MNUCHIN)
https://medium.com/gravitdesigner/the-art-of-kerning-be16be25344f

Not this Researchers area of expertise. According to this article one can apply kerning to any type face.

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #977,067

@977,050 (MR STEVEN MNUCHIN)
On WordPerfect you could choose to do it though. It was called something like tighten spacing and it would shuffle some letters closer together. You could tweak it and save your options for each font in bold, italic etc. Pretty basic stuff

MR STEVEN MNUCHIN replied with this 7 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #977,122

@previous (L)
that's tracking not kerning

Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 7 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #977,143

@previous (MR STEVEN MNUCHIN)
Tracking is what you did to make VCR pictures clear back in the day

Anonymous D replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #977,144

@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
That worked about as well as vertical tracking/hold, on old TV sets.

Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #977,146

@previous (D)

Sometimes the verticle hold can be used to make pal consoles work on NTSC TVs.

MR STEVEN MNUCHIN replied with this 7 years ago, 43 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #977,156

@977,143 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
Before that it was a typographic term. Thanks.
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