I have some legacy files I would like to retrieve. I know this was a feature in the Windows version, I was curious if it carried over to the Mac OS
Don’t know if you can buy an Amipro because it is verrrry old (win3.1). But if you you have a Winbox available you can buy the also old IBM/Lotus Smartesuite which still runs on my Win7 64bit. Install it and load your Amipro files and export it to one of the newer Word formats .DOC that you can open in LO.
In my experience this is the best way to not loose to much formating information.
Here is the link where I bought my copy. Unfortunately they say “temporarily out of stock” what can mean never comes back. A Google search might give you some solution.
There is also the possibility of online convertion.
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Is there a feedback about success?
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My still working (on Win 8.1, 64) StarOffice 5.2 from 2000 does offer to read AmiPro files but I cannot test this lacking an example file. I also once tested my old Win installer (.exe). for SO 5.2 (German) under Wine and it worked.
Currently, I do not believe this format is supported. The usual filter for these legacy MacOS file formats is libmwaw and the wiki page does not explicitly list AmiPro, although there are stubs in the source code for recognising this file format. The same question was asked on AskUbuntu back in 2011. The best option appears to be buying a copy of AmiPro and exporting the documents to format LO can open.
Around the same time a corresponding enhancement request (fdo#36543) also appears to have been raised and then closed in short order. It may be worthwhile talking to the libmwaw developers about the possibility of implementing support for this file format (and subsequently re-opening the bug if it looks possible). Alonso may also provide an answer here about the likelihood.
Ami Pro seems only to exist on Windows, OS/2, HP-UX ( see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Pro ) ; if so, this format will never be supported by libmwaw :-~
Notes:
- normally, by default, LibreOffice can import the same formats on Linux, OSX and Windows.
- you can suggest this format to http://www.documentliberation.org/ list ; maybe one day, …
File > Open > and search if there is AmiPro file format listed. I did not see in in OSX 10.6.8 and LibO 4.2.6.2.