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A document being edited in WordPerfect X3 Satellite Software International (SSI) Initial release 1979; 39 years ago ( 1979) X8 (April 11, 2016; 21 months ago ( 2016-04-11)) and later Website WordPerfect ( WP) is a application owned by with a long history on multiple platforms. The program was originally developed under contract at for use on a in 1979. The authors retained the rights to the program, forming Satellite Software International (SSI) to sell it under the name WordPerfect in 1980. A to followed in 1982 and several greatly updated versions quickly followed. The application's feature list was considerably more advanced than its main competition, an established program that originated on. Despite its comprehensive abilities, it still gained praise for its 'look of spareness' and clean display.
WordPerfect rapidly displaced most other systems, especially after the 4.2 release in 1986. By release 5.1 in 1989, WordPerfect had become a standard in the DOS market.
At the height of its popularity in the 1980s, it was a dominant player in the word processor market, partly because of extensive, no-cost support, with 'hold jockeys' entertaining users on hold. While best known in its and versions, its early popularity was based partly on its availability for a wide variety of computers and operating systems. Its dominant position ended after a flubbed release for Microsoft Windows, followed by a long delay before introducing an improved version., having been tuned for some time on the Mac, was introduced at the same time in a much superior version. Word rapidly took over the market, helped by aggressive bundling deals that ultimately produced, and by the mid-1990s, WordPerfect was no longer the de facto standard.
The common of WordPerfect document files is.wpd. Older versions of WordPerfect also used file extensions.wp,.wp7,.wp6,.wp5,.wp4, and originally no extension at all.
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, a (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professor designed a word processing system for the city of 's system in 1979. Bastian and Ashton kept the rights to the WordPerfect software they produced. The two founded Satellite Software International, Inc. Of, to market the program to other Data General users. WordPerfect 1.0 represented a significant departure from the previous standard for word processing. The first version of WordPerfect for the was released the day after Thanksgiving, 1982.
It was sold as 'WordPerfect 2.20', continuing the version numbering from the Data General. Over the next several months, three more minor releases arrived mainly to correct bugs.
The developers had originally hoped to program WordPerfect in, but at this early stage there were no decent C compilers available for the IBM PC. Most of the other programming languages then available were unsuited for the job, so they ultimately had to program it in x86 assembly language. All versions of WordPerfect up to 5.0 were written thus, and C was only adopted with WP 5.1 when it became necessary to cross-port it to non-IBM compatibles. The use of straight assembly language and a high amount of direct screen access gave WordPerfect a significant performance advantage over WordStar, which used strictly DOS functions for all screen and keyboard access and was often painfully slow. In addition, WordStar was extremely slow in switching to support for. In 1983, WordPerfect 3.0 for DOS came out.
This was fully updated to support DOS 2.x and be able to use subdirectories and. It also provided a solution to the problem of printer support - WordPerfect 2.x only supported and Diablo printers, which was also hard-coded into the main program executable. Adding support for additional printers this way was impractical, so the company introduced the novel feature of, which essentially amounted to a file containing a list of control codes for each particular model of printer. Version 3.0 thus had support for 50 different printers and within a year, this was expanded to 100. WordPerfect also supplied an editor utility that allowed users to make their own printer drivers or modify the included ones.
During this time, the company considered adding to the program, but ultimately decided against it. observed that 'WordPerfect Corp. Doesn't need to worry too much about piracy: WordPerfect is almost unusable without its manual of over 600 pages!' The next year WordPerfect 4.0 was released. WordPerfect 4.2 in 1986 introduced automatic (important to law offices), and automatic numbering and placement of and (important to law offices and academics).
WordPerfect 4.2 became the first program to overtake the original market leader (, the leading word processing program) in a major application category on the platform. The 4.2 release only supported the text enhancements of Bold and Italic. By 1987 a magazine described WordPerfect as 'a standard in the MS-DOS world.
A powerhouse program that includes almost everything'. On 6 November 1989, WordPerfect Corporation released the program's most successful version, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, which was the first version (aside from the short-lived WordPerfect 5.0) to include (text-based) -style, -style, pull-down menus to supplement the traditional combinations, support for, a -like feature, and full support for the typesetting options (italic, redline, strikeout, etc.) permitted. This version of WordPerfect included, as a 'Print preview', a graphical representation of the final printed output. (This was the foundation for WordPerfect 6.0's graphic screen editing.) The data format used by WordPerfect 5.1 was, for years, the most common word processing file format.
All word processors could read (and convert) that formatand many conferences and magazines insisted that people ship their documents in 5.1 format. To allow older DOS-based PCs to utilize the new WordPerfect 6 file format, WordPerfect 5.1+ for DOS was introduced. This version could read and write WordPerfect 6 files, included several 3rd party screen and printing applications (previously sold separately), and provided several minor improvements. Unlike previous DOS versions, WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS (released in 1993) could switch between its traditional text-based editing mode and a graphical editing mode that showed the document as it would print out known as (What You See Is What You Get), including fonts. The previous text-based versions used different colors or text color inversions to indicate various markups, and (starting with version 5.0) used a graphic mode only for an uneditable print preview that used generic fonts rather than the actual fonts that appeared on the printed page. Key characteristics WordPerfect's distinguishing features include:.
extensive use of combinations, especially on, enabling touch-typists to access features without having to use the mouse;. its 'streaming code' file format;. its Reveal Codes feature. its numbering of lines as the legal profession requires, and its macro/scripting language, PerfectScript. The ease of use of tools like (combine form documents with data from any data source), 'Print as booklet', and tables (with spreadsheet capabilities and possibility to generate graphs) are also notable. The WordPerfect document format allows continuous extending of functionality without jeopardizing backward and forward compatibility.
Despite the fact that the newer version is extremely rich in functionality, WordPerfect X5 documents are fully compatible with WordPerfect 6.0a documents in both directions. The older program simply ignores the 'unknown' property while rendering the known elements of the document.
WordPerfect users were never forced to upgrade for compatibility reasons for more than two decades. Streaming code architecture A key to WordPerfect's design is its streaming code architecture that parallels the formatting features of and. Documents are created much the same way that raw HTML pages are written, with text interspersed by tags (called 'codes') that trigger treatment of data until a corresponding closing tag is encountered, at which point the settings active to the point of the opening tag resume control. As with HTML, tags can be nested.
Some data structures are treated as objects within the stream as with HTML's treatment of graphic images, e.g., footnotes and styles, but the bulk of a WordPerfect document's data and formatting codes appear as a single continuous stream. A difference between HTML tags and WordPerfect codes is that HTML codes can all be expressed as a string of plain text characters delimited by greater-than and less-than characters, e.g. Text whereas WordPerfect formatting codes consist of values.
Styles and style libraries The addition of styles and style libraries in WP 5.0 provided greatly increased power and flexibility in formatting documents, while maintaining the streaming-code architecture of earlier versions. Styles are a preset arrangement of settings having to do with things like fonts, spacings, tab stops, margins and other items having to do with text layout. Styles can be created by the user to shortcut the setup time when starting a new document, and they can be saved in the program's style library. Prior to that, WordPerfect's only use of styles was the Opening Style, which contained the default settings for a document. After the purchase of the program, Corel enhanced the WordPerfect styles editor and styles behavior with the majority of Ventura's capabilities. This improved the usability and performance of graphic elements like text boxes, document styles, footer and header styles.
Since WordPerfect has been enriched with properties from Graphics suite, graphic styles are editable. The Graphics Styles editor enables customizing the appearance of boxes, borders, lines and fills and store the customized design for reuse. The possibilities include patterns and color gradients for fills; corner, endpoint, pen-type and thickness for lines. Box styles can be used as container style, including a border, lines, fill, text and caption; each with its separate style. A text box style shows that WordPerfect cascades its styles. Around the same time Corel included WordPerfect, with its full functionality, in CorelDraw Graphics Suite as the text editor.
Reveal codes Present since the earliest versions of WordPerfect, the Reveal Codes feature distinguishes it from other word processors; Microsoft Word's equivalent is less powerful. The feature is a second editing screen that can be toggled open and closed at the bottom of the main editing screen.
It was especially beloved of those who were faced with, which had at the time no similar feature. The codes for formatting and locating text are displayed, interspersed with tags and the occasional objects, with the tags and objects represented by named tokens. The scheme provides a more detailed view to troubleshoot problems than with styles-based word processors, and object tokens can be clicked with a pointing device to directly open the configuration editor for the particular object type, e.g. Clicking on a style token brings up the style editor with the particular style type displayed. Because of their style dependencies, efforts to create the equivalent of Reveal Codes in other word processors produced dissimilar results. WordPerfect had this feature already in its DOS incarnations: it could be brought forward by pressing Alt+ F3. Macro languages WordPerfect for DOS stood out for its, in which sequences of keystrokes, including function codes, were recorded as the user typed them.
These macros could then be assigned to any key desired. This enabled any sequence of keystrokes to be recorded, saved, and recalled. Macros could examine system data, make decisions, be chained together, and operate recursively until a defined 'stop' condition occurred.
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This capability provided a powerful way to rearrange data and formatting codes within a document where the same sequence of actions needed to be performed repetitively, e.g., for tabular data. But since keystrokes were recorded, changes in the function of certain keys as the program evolved would mean that macros from one DOS version of WordPerfect would not necessarily run correctly on another version. Editing of macros was difficult until the introduction of a macro editor in Shell, in which a separate file for each WordPerfect product with macros enabled the screen display of the function codes used in the macros for that product.
WordPerfect DOS macros, which assumed a text-based screen, with fixed locations on the screen, could not, or could not easily, be implemented with the Windows WYSIWYG screen and mouse. For example, 'go down four lines' has a clear meaning on a DOS screen, but no definite meaning with a Windows screen. WordPerfect lacked a way to meaningfully record mouse movements. A new and even more powerful interpreted token-based macro recording and scripting language came with both DOS and Windows 6.0 versions, and that became the basis of the language named PerfectScript in later versions. PerfectScript has remained the mainstay scripting language for WordPerfect users ever since. It dealt with functions rather than with keystrokes. There was no way to import DOS macros, and users who had created extensive macro libraries were forced to continue using WordPerfect 5.1, or to rewrite all the macros from scratch using the new programming language.
An important property of WordPerfect macros is that they are not embedded in a document. As a result, WordPerfect is not prone to or, unlike MS Word. Despite the term 'macro', the language has hundreds of commands and functions and in fact creates full-fledged programs resident on and executed on the user's computer. In WPDOS 6 the source code is generated using the same interface used to edit documents.
A WordPerfect macro can create or modify a document or perform tasks such as displaying results of a calculation such as taking a date input, adding a specific number of days and displaying the new date in a dialog box. Documents created or edited by a WordPerfect macro are no different from those produced by manual input; the macros simply improve efficiency or automate repetitive tasks and also enabled creating content-rich document types which would hardly be feasible manually.
The PerfectScript macro language shows especial versatility in its ability to deploy every function that exists in the entire office suite, no matter if that function was designed for WordPerfect, Quattro Pro or Presentations. The macro development wizard presents and explains all of these functions. The number of functions available through PerfectScript is unparalleled in the office market.
On top of the functions available in the main components of the office suite, PerfectScript also provides the user with tools to build dialogs and forms. Widgets like buttons, input fields, drop-down lists and labels are easily combined to build user-friendly interfaces for custom office applications. An example: a Dutch housing company (VZOS, Den Haag, several thousands of apartments) had its mutation administration build with WordPerfect. Beginning with WordPerfect Office 10, the suite also included the Microsoft Office macro language as an alternative, meant to improve compatibility of the suite with Microsoft Office documents. Language formatting conventions The Language Resource File (WP.LRS) specified language formatting conventions. Function keys Like its mid-1980s competitor, WordPerfect used almost every possible combination of with, and modifiers.
This was in contrast to early versions of, which used only Ctrl, in conjunction with traditional typing keys. (, WordStar's original platform, did not support the Alt key.) Many people still know and use the combinations from the DOS version, which were originally designed for Data General Dasher that supported two groups of five plain, shift, control, and control shift function keys.
This was translated to the layout of the 1981, with two columns of function keys at the left end of the keyboard, but worked even better with the 1984 PC with three groups of four function keys across the top of the keyboard. With the 1981 PC keyboard, the and the related F4 ( Indent) functions were adjacent. This plethora of keystroke possibilities, combined with the developers' wish to keep the user interface free of 'clutter' such as on-screen menus, made it necessary for most users to use a keyboard template showing each function. WordPerfect used F3 instead of F1 for Help, F1 instead of Esc for Cancel, and Esc for Repeat (though a configuration option in later versions allowed these functions to be rotated to locations that later became more standard). However, the extensive number of key combinations are now one of WordPerfect's most popular features among its regular ' such as legal secretaries, paralegals and attorneys. Although WP has dozens of key combinations, in practice users quickly memorize the combinations they regularly use and simply ignore the others. Printer drivers WordPerfect for DOS shipped with an impressive array of —a feature that played an important role in its adoption—and also shipped with a printer driver editor called PTR, which features a flexible macro language and allows technically inclined users to customize and create printer drivers.
Internally, WordPerfect used an extensive WordPerfect as its. The precise meaning of the characters, although clearly defined and documented, can be overridden in its customizable printer drivers with PTR. The relationship between different type faces and styles, and between them and the various sections in the WordPerfect character set, were also described in the printer drivers and can be customized through PTR. An interesting feature of the DOS 5.0 version was its Type-Through feature. It allowed a user with certain compatible printers to use Word Perfect as a conventional typewriter. This functionality was removed in the DOS 5.1 version.
WordPerfect Library/Office utilities WordPerfect Corporation produced a variety of ancillary and spin-off products. WordPerfect Library, introduced in 1986 and later renamed WordPerfect Office (not to be confused with Corel's office suite of the ), was a package of network and stand-alone for use with WordPerfect. The package included a DOS menu shell and, whose macros allowed text to be moved from one program to another (for example, from WordPerfect to Calendar, and vice versa), a do-all editor, apparently that of, which could edit binary files as well as WordPerfect or Shell macros, calendar, and a general purpose program that could be used as the data file for a in WordPerfect and as a. After Novell acquired WordPerfect Corporation, it incorporated many of these utilities into Novell.
LetterPerfect In 1990 WordPerfect Corporation also offered LetterPerfect, which was a reduced-functionality version of WP-DOS 5.1 intended for use on less-capable hardware such as the laptops of the day, and as an entry-level product for students and home users; the name (but not the code) was purchased from a small Missouri company that had produced a basic word processor for early Atari computers. LP did not support macros, tables, labels, sorting, equation editing or styles.
It sold for about US$100 but did not catch on and was soon discontinued. DataPerfect Another program distributed through WordPerfect Corporation (and later through Novell) was DataPerfect for DOS, a fast and capable (RDBMS) requiring as little as 300 KB of free DOS memory to run.
It was written by Lew Bastian. In December 1995, Novell released DataPerfect as copyrighted freeware and allowed the original author to continue to update the program. Updates were developed until at least 2008.
DataPerfect supports up to 99 data files ('panels') with each holding up to 16 million records of up to 125 fields and an unlimited number of variable-length memo fields which can store up to 64 thousand characters each. Networked, DataPerfect supports up to 000000000♠10,000 simultaneous users. WordPerfect for Windows History WordPerfect was late in coming to market with a Windows version. The first mature version, WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows, was released in November 1992. Prior to that, there was a WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows, introduced a year earlier.
That version had to be installed from DOS and was largely unpopular due to serious stability issues. By the time WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows was introduced, Microsoft Word for Windows version 2 had been on the market for over a year and had received its third interim release, v2.0c.
WordPerfect's function-key-centered user interface did not adapt well to the new paradigm of mouse and pull-down menus, especially with many of WordPerfect's standard key combinations pre-empted by incompatible keyboard shortcuts that Windows itself used; for example, Alt-F4 became Exit Program, as opposed to WordPerfect's Block Text. The DOS version's impressive arsenal of finely tuned printer drivers was also rendered obsolete by Windows' use of its own printer device drivers. WordPerfect Office Suite WordPerfect became part of an when the company entered into a co-licensing agreement with in 1993. The offerings were marketed as Borland Office, containing Windows versions of WordPerfect, and a LAN-based groupware package called WordPerfect Office (not to be confused with the complete applications suite of the same name later marketed by Corel).
Originally based on the WordPerfect Library for DOS, the Novell / WordPerfect Office suite was integrated by '.' The most important middleware-suite, still active in current versions of WordPerfect Office, is called PerfectFit (developed by WordPerfect). The other 'middleware' (developed by Novell) was called AppWare.
Novell buys WordPerfect Company The WordPerfect product line was sold twice, first to in June 1994, who then sold it (at a big loss) to in January 1996. However, Novell kept the WordPerfect Office technology, incorporating it into its messaging and collaboration product.
Microsoft vs Novell Compounding WordPerfect's troubles were issues associated with the release of the first version, WordPerfect 7, intended for use on. In the lawsuit 'Novell v. Microsoft', Novell argued that these problems were due to anti-competitive acts by Microsoft. While WordPerfect 7 contained notable improvements over the WordPerfect for Windows 3.1, it was released in May 1996, nine months after the introduction of Windows 95 and Microsoft Office 95 (including ). The initial release suffered from notable stability problems.
WordPerfect 7 also did not have a Microsoft 'Designed for Windows 95' logo. This was important to Windows 95 software purchasers as Microsoft set standards for application design, behavior, and interaction with the operating system. To make matters worse, the original release of WordPerfect 7 was incompatible with, hindering its adoption in many professional environments. The 'NT Enabled' version of WordPerfect 7, which Corel considered to be Service Pack 2, was not available until Q1-1997, over six months after the introduction of, a year and a half after the introduction of Office 95 (which supported Windows NT out of the box), and shortly after the introduction of Office 97. Market share While WordPerfect dominated the DOS market, Microsoft shifted its attention toward a Windows version of Word; after Windows 3.0 was introduced, Word's market share began to grow at an extraordinary rate. A Windows version of WordPerfect was not introduced until nearly two years after Windows 3.0, and was met with poor reviews. Word also benefited from being included in an integrated office suite package much sooner than WordPerfect.
While WordPerfect had more than 50% of the worldwide word-processing market in 1995, by 2000 Word had up to 95%; it was so dominant that WordPerfect executives admitted that their software needed to be compatible with Word documents to survive. Application integration and middleware While Microsoft offered something that looked like a fully integrated office suite in, a common complaint about early Windows versions of WordPerfect Office was that it looked like a collection of separate applications from different vendors cobbled together, with inconsistent user interfaces from one application to another. In fact, enabling applications from various software developers to work together on every platform was part of the Novell strategy.
Novell had acquired WordPerfect for Windows from WordPerfect Corporation, Paradox from Borland, and various peripheral utilities from other companies and had started to evangelize the Novell 'middleware' - Appware - as a means for others to run their programs on every operating system. This 'middleware' strategy would make software vendors and customers independent from operating system vendors, like Microsoft, thus posing a real threat.
Contrary to Microsoft with its MS Office however, starting with WordPerfect Office 9, Corel successfully integrated the components of WordPerfect Office almost seamlessly. PerfectScript and the middleware PerfectFit played the major role here.
Elements of applications like CorelDraw and Ventura desktop publishing were also integrated and enriched the document format. X8 (18) / April 11, 2016 Written in and later Website WordPerfect Office is an developed.
It originates from 's Borland Office, released in 1993 to compete against and. Borland's suite bundled three key applications: WordPerfect, and. Borland then sold the suite to in 1994, which led to the addition of Novell Presentations and the now-defunct InfoCentral. It was then sold to Corel in 1996. The latest version is WordPerfect Office X8 (representing 18), released April 11, 2016.
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Latest Version Features Enhanced Reveal Codes, Customer Requested Enhancements, New PDF Forms, Enhanced eBook Publishing, Corel® AfterShot™ 2: photo-editing and management, an iPadApp and More Time-Saving Tools. It is available in five editions: Standard, Professional, Legal, Home & Student and Academic. Key features include the returning note-taking application, Corel® AfterShot™ 2, Corel and Nuance, as well as for the iPad that allows it to access a Corel-hosted WordPerfect for Windows session. Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 featured version 9 of its core applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, Paradox and CorelCentral. All versions of the suite also bundle Trellix 2 and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications.
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The suite for Windows was released on November 16, 1998 as a preview and on May 25, 1999 to retail. The Home and Student edition, as well as the Family Pack, omit the Presentations and Paradox software. Small Business edition was released on January 31, 2000 and omits Paradox. Several variants of this suite exist.
One of these is the Family Pack, sold in versions 2 and 3 at a reduced price. This version cannot be used in a commercial setting. Three variants of the suite were created to integrate voice recognition. The first, the Voice Powered Edition, includes Dragon NaturallySpeaking 3 and was released in North America. The second, available at some international locations, included Philips newest generation of FreeSpeech. The third is WordPerfect Law Office 2000, released on December 20, 1999.
It features NaturallySpeaking Standard 4 and bundles several programs designed for lawyers. Another notable variant is WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, released on March 10, 2000. Although it supports various Linux distributions, it was designed with in mind as a way to upgrade such systems, which bundled a free version of the WordPerfect word processor. Quattro Pro.
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'Classic Mode' Corel added 'Classic Mode' in WordPerfect 11. Although this displays the 'classic' cyan text on medium blue background, it is not a true emulation of the DOS version. It does select the WPDOS 5.1 Keyboard. (The 6.1 Keyboard is available too.) The WPWin macro system, which remains unchanged, is quite different from that of WPDOS, and conversion is not easy. Unsurprisingly, the menu remains the WPWin menu, and the available Toolbars are WPWin toolbars. Versions available Summary WordPerfect 9 and newer is bundled with the WordPerfect Office suite and cannot be purchased separately.
Latest stable version Support status, (32-bit or 64-bit) X8 2016–present / X7 2001–2015 / / X3? 7 1991-1997 With 9.0 2000 Desktop 2.0 and newer 8.1 1996-1999 3.1 and higher 6.2 1982-1997 – 3.5e 1988-1997 Beta 1997 5.2 1989-1993 1.0.1 1991 VAX/VMS 7.1 1987-? Data General 4.2 1980-1989 Atari ST and Amiga 4.1 1987 2.1e?. Mac version numbers are much lower than their Windows counterpart for comparable functionality. For example, WordPerfect 3.5e was the final release for Mac OS, but despite its version number, it boasted compatibility with WordPerfect 7 for Windows 95 files. Known versions for VAX/VMS include 5.1, 5.3 and 7.1, year of release unknown. Known versions for include 6.0, requiring or 2, year of release unknown.
Known versions for include 4.2, released 1988. Known versions for the 100 include version (?), released November 1983.
In addition, versions of WordPerfect have also been available for, DEC Rainbow, and systems, as well as around 30 flavors of, including, Unix, Unix, 8000, and, and. Macintosh Development of WordPerfect for Macintosh did not run parallel to versions for other operating systems, and used version numbers unconnected to contemporary releases for DOS and Windows. Version 2 was a total rewrite, adhering more closely to Apple's UI guidelines. Version 3 took this further, making extensive use of the technologies Apple introduced in Systems 7.0–7.5, while remaining fast and capable of running well on older machines. Corel released version 3.5 in 1996, followed by the improved version 3.5e (for enhanced) in 1997.
It was never updated beyond that, and the product was eventually discontinued. As of 2004, Corel has reiterated that the company has no plans to further develop WordPerfect for Macintosh (such as creating a native Mac OS X version). For several years, Corel allowed Mac users to download version 3.5e from their website free of charge, and some Mac users still use this version. The download is still available at the Mac Yahoo group along with the necessary OS 8/9/Classic Updater that slows scroll speed and restores functionality to the Style and Window menus. Like other Mac OS applications of its age, it requires the Classic environment on Macs.
While Intel Macs do not support Classic, emulators such as, and allow users to run WordPerfect on any Macintosh computer. Users wishing to use a current release of WordPerfect can run the Windows version through or virtualization software, and through or with mixed results.
Atari ST Like the Macintosh version, development of WordPerfect for the did not run parallel to the DOS versions. However the Atari ST version number aligned with contemporary DOS releases.
In 1987, WordPerfect Corp. Released version 4.1.
This was the only Atari version ever released, but numerous patches and updates ensured that the Atari version of WordPerfect ran on all Atari ST, and computers. WordPerfect ST differs from the DOS version most notably in speed and number of windows a user can open. On the Atari ST version, a user can open up to four windows (compared to DOS' two) and the application runs three to five times faster than the DOS version (depending on which update or patch is installed). This was possible because WordPerfect for the Atari ST was designed from the ground up and was optimized for the processor as well as Atari's GEM operating system. WordPerfect for the Atari ST retailed at US$395 with a student version for US$99.
The price of WordPerfect was significantly higher than most of the other Atari word processors available at the time. Atari Corporation published a version of (the Atari version of Microsoft Word 1.05 for the Macintosh) for US$129.95 (almost 75% off the suggested retail price of WordPerfect), which did not help WordPerfect's campaign to establish itself as the standard word processor on the Atari platform. Like other versions, WordPerfect for the ST was not copy protected.
In 1988 WordPerfect threatened to abandon the Atari market after copies of the word processor were found on several pirate. However, support from the Atari community convinced WordPerfect to reconsider and support for the Atari ST continued, but only a single developer was assigned to the project to fix bugs. A WordPerfect 5.1 version for the Atari ST was planned and in development but was later cancelled. Amiga In 1987, WordPerfect was ported to the and was upgraded through version 4.1 on the platform despite rumors of its discontinuation. The company's efforts were not well supported by Amiga users and it did not sell well. Though it could be started from the or, WordPerfect remained a fundamentally text-oriented program and retained its DOS command structure.
Satellite Software received criticism for releasing a non-graphical word processor on a graphically oriented system. In 1989, WordPerfect Corporation stopped all Amiga development, including work on a version of PlanPerfect, stating that it had lost $800,000 on the computer and could not afford to add Amiga-specific features. After customers stated that they would be satisfied with a DOS-like word processor the company resumed development of only the Amiga version of WordPerfect, but discontinued it in 1992. Linux In 1995, WordPerfect 6.0 was made available for as part of 's internet office package. In late 1997, a newer version was made available for download, but had to be purchased to be activated. In 1998 Corel released WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux.
The full version was sold as a package. A cut-down version was made available for downloading. Hoping to establish themselves in the nascent commercial Linux market, Corel also developed their of Linux. This included WordPerfect 8.1 for Linux. Although the Linux distribution was fairly well-received, the response to WordPerfect for Linux varied. Some Linux promoters appreciated the availability of a well-known, mainstream application for the operating system.
Once appeared in 1999, there was little demand for a proprietary, closed-source project like WordPerfect. On top of this, WordPerfect 9.0, which was released as part of the WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux package, was not a native Linux application like WP 6-8, but derived from the Windows version using Corel's own version of the compatibility library, and hence had performance problems. WordPerfect failed to gain a large user base, and as part of Corel's change of strategic direction following a (non-voting) investment by Microsoft, WordPerfect for Linux was discontinued and their Linux distribution was sold to. In April 2004, Corel re-released WordPerfect 8.1 (the last Linux-native version) with some updates, as a 'proof of concept' and to test the Linux market. As of 2011, WordPerfect for Linux is not available for purchase. Linux applications may use the libwpd library to convert Word Perfect documents. IOS A WordPerfect X7 app exists on, but it is merely remote desktop software connecting to a Corel-hosted WordPerfect for Windows session.
Unicode and Asian language editing WordPerfect lacks support forwhich limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe. Despite pleas from long-time users, this feature has not yet been implemented. For users in WordPerfect's traditional markets, the inability to deal with complex character sets, such as Asian language scripts, can cause difficulty when working on documents containing those characters.
However, later versions have provided better compliance with interface conventions, file compatibility, and even Word interface emulation. However, WordPerfect X4 was reported to be able to import IPA character set, and copy and paste works as long as the pastes into WP are done via Paste Special Unicode command. Publishing to PDF from WordPerfect embeds the WP-phonetic font together with the Unicode-compatible font. Reception. This section needs to be updated.
Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (June 2015) stated in March 1983 that ' WordPerfect is very impressive, a more than full-featured program with a few truly state-of-the-art goodies tucked into the package'. It cited WordPerfect's inclusion of mail merge, footnotes, and macros—all missing from WordStar—as well as 'virtually every. Feature that one ought to expect from a higher-priced program' including find-and-replace, bold and underline display, and automatic paragraph reflow.
In December 1984 noted the application's built-in, ability to show bold, underline, and centered text, and extensive math capabilities. It criticized the quality of the spell checker and difficult tab settings, but concluded that 'its powerful capabilities far outweigh the problems mentioned'. In August 1985 called WordPerfect 'excellent'. It especially praised the clean, uncluttered screen and fast spell checker. Noting the spell checker's size and the company's 'excellent track record of supporting its software', Antic in May 1988 concluded that 'If you want to own the most power-packed word processor available for the ST today, and can live with the relative complexity needed for harnessing this power, WordPerfect is what you've been waiting for.'
See also. — repackaged and sold as Corel Home Office and Corel Office Suite by Corel, but using Ability and Microsoft's file formats instead of WordPerfect Office file formats. References. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
With all that it's capable of, I'm impressed by WORDPERFECT'S look of spareness. Sometimes it feels crippled to me, but crippled smart. ^ Pearlman, Gregg (May 1988). Vol. 7 no. 1. McNeill, Dan (December 1987). S Apple Applications. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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External links. a WordPerfect Office users group. Corel WordPerfect Office Press kit:,. discussion forum, free program download, third-party utilities and enhancements. Download sites. —New printer drivers, updates, and added features for WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 and 6.x (with pages on WP on the Mac and Linux). All you need to know about WPDOS 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 on modern computers.
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WPDOS - Printer Drivers for WordPerfect 5.1 New Printer Drivers for WordPerfect 5.1 Bulletin: If your vDosWP system prints (or creates a PDF with) a blank page at the start of a file, download, install, and update the corrected drivers for your printer in the. (To update a WPDOS printer driver install the.ALL file, then, in WPDOS, use Shift-F7, S - Select Printer, 7 - Update. If you get a message saying that the.ALL file cannot be found, then delete the printer and install it again from the list of Additional Printers.) This page contains new printer drivers for WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 and 5.1+.
If you are looking for printer drivers for WordPerfect for DOS 6.0, 6.1, or 6.2, go the page. If your printer was originally made before around 1996, you may be able to find a driver for it on. Go to the page; find your printer; download the self-extracting driver file. ( 1) Search this page to see if your printer is supported by a driver on this page.
Use Ctrl-F and search for the number (only) in the name of your printer. For example, if you have an HP LaserJet P2055dn, search for '2055' (no quotation marks) and make sure that you find a printer name that closely matches your own. For example, if your printer is the HP LaserJet P2055dn, you will find the close match 'HP LaserJet P2055 series'.
( 2) If you do find a driver for your printer, proceed to. If you do not find a match, read the first of the which explains how to determine whether you may be able to use a driver designed for some other printer. If you find that you cannot use a driver for some other printer, exit this page, and use one of the solutions found on.
(If you paid less than around US$200 for your printer, you will probably need to use one of those solutions on the other page.) If you have found a driver for your printer on this page, then do the following. If (and only if) your printer is connected to your computer by a traditional parallel cable , proceed to. If your printer is connected to your computer by a USB cable or by a network connection, then proceed to; then (and only then) proceed to. Download and install the driver for your printer, as described. Please read the and the and the before you do anything else! Don't ignore this paragraph!
If you don't know how to, read the instructions. If you are planning to buy a printer that is not listed on this page, please do NOT write to ask me if it will work with WordPerfect, and do NOT ask me which driver will work with it.
Instead, please read the answer to the first of the below. (Or, alternatively, if you really want to know the answer, make an, and I will try to find the answer for you.) Important warning: I cannot guarantee that these drivers will work with your specific printer!
In almost all cases, I have prepared the driver on the basis of information posted on a manufacturer's web site. That information may be mistaken, or refer to printers manufactured at an earlier time. If you buy a printer only because it is listed on this page, be prepared to return it if necessary. I believe that these drivers work, but I have no means of testing them with all the printers listed on this page. These drivers also work with these: DrawPerfect 1.x, LetterPerfect 1.0, PlanPerfect 5.1, and WordPerfect Works 1.0. For drivers for WPDOS 5.0, consult. Consult the list of printers for the name of the file that contains the driver you want, and download the driver from the.
For WPDOS 4.2, download drivers from the. Don't be clueless! Clueless Visitor No. 44 complained that these drivers did not help him print from Microsoft Word for Windows.
These drivers do nothing at all for Microsoft Word or any other Windows software. (One of a series of Don't be clueless! Warnings provided by this site as a public service.) Please leave if these drivers need any corrections. For example, if you find that you need to press the manual feed button when printing, please let me know your exact printer model and the driver that you are using; I can make a correction in the driver to solve the problem. Slight errors in page margins (which may be a few millimeters away from their correct position) are also easy to fix, but only if you send me full details. When writing, please include your WPDOS version (5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2), and the full name of your printer (for example, HP DeskJet 990cse), not just the number ('HP 1100' can mean any of four completely different printers; I cannot help unless you include the full name).
Do not print correctly after you install the driver for your new printer, that may be because, by default, when you open an old document, WordPerfect temporarily switches to the printer driver that was current when you last saved the document. Either use Shift-F7, Select, and switch to your new driver, or avoid the problem entirely by using Shift-F1, Initial Settings, and switch the setting named Format Retrieved Documents for Default Printer from No to Yes. If you can't choose the paper-size definition that you used before you installed this driver, see this site's instructions for. If you can't make the printer draw paper from the correct input bin (for example, the lower tray on an HP LaserJet), make sure that you selected the correct Sheet Feeder definition, using Shift-F7, Select, Edit. Sheet Feeder. The correct sheet feeder definition will normally have a model number similar to that of your printer (for example, for the HP LaserJet 5100, use the HP LaserJet 5000 sheet feeder definition). You may need to experiment with different sheet feeder definitions until you find one that works perfectly.
If you are experiencing problems printing under Windows, or you want to print to a USB printer for which you have a WPDOS driver (either from this site or from Corel), see the suggestions on this site's page. If you have a PostScript printer for which no specific WPDOS driver exists, you can probably use almost any standard PostScript driver.
For monochrome printing, the Apple LaserWriter IINTX is always a safe choice; the Xerox DocuTech 135 driver gives access to a wide range of sheet sizes. For color printing, try the Tektronix Phaser ColorQuick driver. These drivers may be downloaded from; search for the printers by name. For PostScript Level 3 printers, try the available from this page.
If you cannot find any driver that works with your printer, see this site's instructions for. A full list of older WordPerfect printer drivers available from may be found in this from Corel's web site. A list of supported soft fonts may be found in another from the same site. If you get error messages when you try to download files from, see this site's. I can't find any driver on this page for the new Samsung (or Brother or Canon or Dell or Kyocera or Lexmark or something else) laser printer that I'm interested in buying. Can you tell me whether that printer works with one of your drivers? I can't tell you, because I don't know.
But you can very easily find out for yourself. Go to the manufacturer's web site, and look for the technical specifications of the printer. Look for a category with a name like 'emulations' or 'printer languages' or something similar. If you see either the words ' PCL5' or ' PCL5e,' then the printer has a good chance of working with my.
( Warning: If you see 'PCL6' but you do not see 'PCL5e,' then the printer may or may not include PCL5e support and may or may not work with my drivers. Some PCL6 printers also have PCL5e support, but not all.) If you see the word ' PostScript,' then simply use the driver that came with your WP program for the 'Apple LaserWriter IINTX' (use the 'Additional Printers' item on the printer selection menu in WP). If you see the words ' PCL5c,' then the printer is a color printer that has a good chance of working with my. But remember that there are no guarantees!
The manufacturer's web site and specifications may be misleading or mistaken, or the printer may not work for any other reason. Remember: If you do not see either 'PCL5' or 'PCL5e' or 'PCL5c' or 'PostScript' listed, then do not buy the printer! If the specifications say 'PCL4,' but not 'PCL5' or 'PCL5e' or 'PCL5c,' then do not buy the printer!
If the specifications say that PCL is supported only under Windows, then do not buy the printer! Please do not write to ask me about any printer that is not explicitly listed on this page. Before I saw ( or: after I studied your recommendations and decided to ignore them) I bought a low-priced Brother printer, or some other very inexpensive model, and now I can't print from WordPerfect for DOS. I'm desperate. What should I do? You have two options. Either ( 1) take the printer back to the shop and exchange it for one of the Hewlett Packard models that are listed on this page; or ( 2) devote vast amounts of time and effort to making the printer work with this site's slow workaround.
I strongly recommend option ( 1) over option (2). All of my work and much of my life depends on my ability to print from WordPerfect, but I'm just too lazy to read all the carefully-arranged and clearly-explained information that you've put into this page. Also, I'm too selfish to spend my own time solving my own problems and I'm too passive to make any attempt to understand written information that's longer than a headline. Furthermore, I really like it when other people pay a lot of attention to me. So would you please just send me an e-mail telling me what printer to buy? Please do it right now.
It's never too late to learn to be self-reliant. I bought a low-priced printer that was described as 'PCL4 compatible.' I thought that meant the printer was compatible with the my old HP LaserJet, but the only font I can use is 10-pitch Courier. How can I print with the same fonts I used before? 'PCL4' is the printer control language used in the ancient HP LaserJet Series II, which contains only one useful font, 10-pitch Courier. You have two options. Either ( 1) take the printer back to the shop and exchange it for one of the Hewlett Packard models that are listed on this page, almost all of which support PCL5e; or ( 2) devote vast amounts of time and effort to making the printer work with this site's slow workaround.
I strongly recommend option ( 1) over option (2). I studied your recommendations with great care; I bought a printer that you recommend and for which you supply a driver; and I followed your instructions in exact detail. But my new printer won't print, or it causes weird errors when I try to print. I followed your instructions exactly, and installed your driver exactly as you told me to. But when I press Shift-F7 in WordPerfect, and look at the list of Additional Printers, I don't see my printer on the list, even though your description of the driver says that it's included in the driver. Are you totally incompetent? What's wrong with you?
Don't be clueless! Press the PgDn key to see more printers than WordPerfect can list on one screen. Or type N, and then (without pressing Enter) type the exact name of your printer; WordPerfect will try to find its name as you type.
My printer uses a parallel cable to connect to the computer, but my new computer does not have a parallel port. What can I do? Either return your new computer and get a better one, or follow the.
I've been using the 'Standard Printer' driver that comes with WPDOS, and now I've switched to one of your drivers. I use the same typeface that I used before, but the margins and layout of my printed pages are different. That is exactly what is supposed to happen. The 'Standard Printer' driver is absolutely minimal in function; my drivers and the original WP Corp.
Drivers will always produce results slightly different from those produced by the 'Standard Printer' driver. I installed one of your drivers, and now I can't find the paper-size definition that I used with my earlier driver.
You will need to create one or more to use with the new driver. This is the way WordPerfect is designed to work whenever you install a new printer driver.
Please do not write to me to complain that this is inconvenient and time-wasting and I should not have allowed it to happen; find the original WordPerfect programmers and complain to them. This site's methods of. (Note that it is almost impossible to use a USB printer with Windows 95 or NT.) If you are choosing a laser printer for use with WPDOS 6.x, I strongly recommend that you buy a Hewlett Packard LaserJet, or an HP-compatible laser printer that supports the PCL5, PCL5e, or PCL5c printer control language (these include many, but absolutely not all, Lexmark, Canon, Samsung, and Minolta-QMS laser printers; but you should study the note on Dark Courier immediately below this paragraph), or that you buy a PostScript printer. Many Hewlett Packard, Lexmark, and Canon laser printers support PostScript in addition to the HP PCL5e standard.
Note: If you intend to use the Courier typeface, buy only a true Hewlett-Packard LaserJet, not an HP-compatible model from another manufacturer. Hewlett-Packard laser printers can be set to print in ' instead of a thin, spindly Courier; apparently, other printer vendors do not provide this option. I recommend almost any medium- or high-priced Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer, but notthe HP printers listed in various sections below under a 'Do not buy' heading. All the 'Do not buy' printers require when printing from DOS applications. Be very careful when buying an HP multifunction printer (such as the M1319), because most models require the same complicated workarounds. Drivers for HP and HP-compatible printers may be found on this page.
For basic monochrome laser printing from WPDOS, any printer in the HP LaserJet P3xxx series will probably be ideal, and any higher-priced printer model is highly recommended. Some less-expensive models in the P2xxx series will work well, but you must study the list of supported models (elsewhere on this page) with great care. Most current models numbered 2300 and higher either support automatic duplex (two-sided) printing when first installed, or can be fitted with a device that supports automatic duplex printing. No current LaserJet model ships with a parallel port; some high-end models can be fitted with a parallel port, but you no longer need a parallel port anyway. Instead, use the to print from WPDOS to those printers. Never buy the least expensive laser printer in any manufacturer's product line unless you are absolutely certain that the printer is fully compatible with one or more of the following standards: PCL5, PCL5e, PCL5c, or PostScript.
( PCL4 is not enough.) If you ignore this advice, and if you insist on buying a printer that is not fully compatible with one or more of those standards, you will almost certainly need to use one of this site's if you want to print from WordPerfect for DOS. Note: Do not buy the Brother HL-1230, HL-1240, HL-1430, HL-1440, HL-2040, HL-5130, Lexmark E210, or any other extremely inexpensive (i.e. Less than about US$250) laser printer for use with WPDOS. If you insist on buying these printers, you will not be able to use any font other than Courier when printing from WPDOS 5.1, except when using one of the that are described elsewhere on this site.
Please save yourself trouble and aggravation by buying an HP LaserJet instead (but only if you see the specific model listed on this page). Also, do not buy the Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2200 or 2300 models (the 2350 and higher-numbered models should work well with WPDOS). If you are choosing an inkjet printer for use with WPDOS 5.1, I very strongly recommend that you buy a high-end Hewlett Packard OfficeJet Printer, because many of these printers (with noted below) support text printing from DOS applications like WordPerfect. Drivers for many high-end OfficeJet models may be found on this page, together with drivers for obsolete DeskJet, Business Inkjet, Color Inkjet, and Photosmart models that were usable with WPDOS. Some high-end HP inkjet models include PostScript support, in a few cases as an optional add-on; you will need to study HP's web site to determine which ones support PostScript.
I strongly recommend that you do not buy recent inkjet models from Lexmark or Canon, as these are almost unusable with WPDOS 5.1. Some or all current Epson Stylus and Photo printers apparently have the same limitations. PostScript Level 3 printers (including some recent models from HP, Lexmark, and many other vendors) include 136 resident fonts.
If you have a PostScript Level 3 printer, and wish to use these fonts with WPDOS, (98KB; updated 30 April 2003) containing newly-developed generic drivers for color and monochrome models. These are preliminary versions of the drivers, and comments and corrections will be welcome. Warning: Use these drivers only with printers that use Adobe PostScript Level 3; do not use them with printers that are described as 'PostScript Level 3 compatible' or some similar phrase (for non-Adobe PostScript Level 3 printers, use one of the original PostScript printer drivers that ship with WPDOS, perhaps Apple LaserWriter II NTX).
If you use these drivers with any PostScript Level 3 printer that is not explicitly described as using Adobe PostScript, your documents may print with the wrong fonts, or only with a generic Courier font. In WordPerfect's list of Additional Printers, these drivers are listed as PostScript Level 3 Printers (color) and PostScript Level 3 Printers (mono). Different PostScript printers use different codes for controlling their sheet feeders.
These drivers include all known WPDOS 5.1 PostScript sheet feeder definitions. You should experiment to find one that works with your printer; if you find a sheet feeder definition that works well with any current printer, please send me. Notes: Popular printers that support the PostScript Level 3 font set include the HP Color LaserJet 2550, 3700, 4650, 8500 and 8550, the Lexmark Optra C, T, and W series, and the Xerox Phaser 850, 860, and other recent models. All these printers may also be used with the or (for color printers) with the, elsewhere on this page. If you own any of the LaserJet models listed below, please download this (updated 9 February 2017) containing newly-developed drivers for the printers listed below in PCL mode (the default mode). The drivers for the 4000 and higher-numbered models include support for all 80 fonts in the printer's hardware.
The euro symbol is supported in printers that include the euro symbol in hardware (starting with the HP LaserJet 1200, 2100, 3200, 4050, and 8100 models). See this site's for instructions on using the euro symbol. Other solutions for using the euro with any printer may be found on the same page. These drivers are written by the author of this site, and are not endorsed or supported by Corel, Hewlett Packard, or anyone else. Note: WPDOS 5.1 drivers for the HP LaserJet 6L, 6M, 6MP, and for other older models used with euro-enabled soft fonts or SIMMs may be found in a separate. If you need to update a WPDOS printer driver: First install the.ALL file, then, in WPDOS, use Shift-F7, S - Select Printer, 7 - Update.
If you get a message saying that the.ALL file cannot be found, then delete the printer and install it again from the list of Additional Printers. Supported printer families supported by the drivers in the are listed below. (Updated 9 February 2017 to correct an error that printed an initial blank page in some circumstances.) Note that a LaserJet 'series' includes all models that begin with the listed number, so that the 'HP LaserJet 4200 series' includes the LaserJet 4200n, 4200tn, 4200dtn, 4200dtns, 4200dtnsl, etc. Please do not ask me for drivers for earlier models such as the HP LaserJet Series II, III, 4, and 5; those drivers may be found on your original WP printer disks and may also be downloaded from.