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Come see why Corel WordPerfect Office X8 - Standard Edition is the legendary office leader for creating impressive documents, presentations, spreadsheets. Enter to Search. WordPerfect is one of the oldest word processing apps around although unfortunately WordPerfect for Mac is not available. The only way to open, edit and save WordPerfect documents on macOS is to install Windows on your Mac and run the PC version of WordPerfect. WordPerfect is one of the oldest word processing apps around although unfortunately WordPerfect for Mac is not available. The only way to open, edit and save WordPerfect documents on macOS is to install Windows on your Mac and run the PC version of WordPerfect.

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Read this first: This page is about WordPerfect for the Macintosh on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers that run OS X versions 10.3 'Jaguar' or 10.4 'Tiger'. These computers can run WordPerfect for the Mac in the 'Classic' environment.

If you are running OS X 10.5 'Leopard' on an old PowerPC-based Mac, or if you are running OS X 10.4 'Tiger' on an Intel-based Mac or if you are running any other version of OS X on an Intel-based Mac (meaning any Macintosh made since late 2006), then see a separate page about WPMac on Intel for a method of running WordPerfect for the Mac on your machine.

If you don't know which kind of Mac you have, click the Apple icon on the upper left corner of the screen, then click 'About this Mac'. In the 'About this Mac' dialog box, look at the line that begins 'Processor.' If you see the word 'Intel,' then you have an Intel-based Mac. If you see 'Power PC' then you have a PowerPC-based Mac. The same dialog box will also tell you which version of OS X you have.

Are you absolutely certain that you understand which page you should read? If not, read this section again, and, if necessary, yet again, until you are absolutely certain that you understand whether this page applies to your Mac.

If you want information about ways to run WordPerfect for DOS on modern Macintosh hardware, see a separate page.

WordPerfect for the Macintosh under the OS X ('OS Ten') Classic environment

This page with WordPerfect for the Mac on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers running OS X versions 10.3 and 10.4. Apple stopped producing PowerPC-based Macs in 2006, and has since produced only Intel-based computers. If your Macintosh was made after 2006, or if you are running OS X 10.5 ('Leopard') or later on your older Mac, then go to a different pagenow.

WordPerfect for the Macintosh (WPMac) was written for obsolete versions of the Macintosh operating system, but it works perfectly in Mac OS X ('OS Ten') on PowerPC (PPC) Macintosh machines such as the PowerBook, iBook, PowerMac, and PPC-based iMac and Mac Mini series running OS X versions up to and including 10.4 'Tiger' (but not 10.5 'Leopard' or later versions). Like all other programs written for older versions of the Mac OS, WPMac runs under OS X in a part of the operating system software that is called the Classic environment. (The Classic environment is available only on PowerPC-based machines running OS X up to and including version 10.4 'Tiger'; it is not available on Intel-based Macintosh machines, nor is it available on PowerPC-based machines running 10.5 'Leopard' or later versions.)

The Classic environment closely imitates OS 9, so that older programs act as if they were running on an older Macintosh with OS 9 installed. When the Classic environment is in the foreground, an OS 9-style menu bar replaces the standard OS X menu bar at the top of the screen, complete with the many-colored Apple menu icon at the top left corner.

Further information about WPMac may be found at the web site of one of the original programmers, Kevin McCoy.

Help! I don't have Classic on my Mac! You may need to install the Classic environment on your Mac. If you have a PowerPC-based system running OS X 10.3, then consult this page on Apple's web site (and see the links to other pages at the foot of Apple's instructions). If you have a PowerPC-based system running OS X 10.4, then consult this page on Apple's web site. If you have any Intel-based Mac, or any Mac running OS X 10.5, then Classic is not available in any form for your system, and you should consult a separate page on this site.

How to find, install, or update WordPerfect for the Macintosh

The last version of WPMac is WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced for the Macintosh; Corel originally sold it on a CD and later offered it as a free download. (John Rethorst, an expert user whose name appears often on this page, first suggested to Corel that the program be made available free.) The CD is no longer available, and the downloaded version is no longer available from Corel's site, but it may be found elsewhere on the Internet. Web pages that link to the original download file and an updater for use with Mac OS 8 and 9 (which should be applied in order to run WPMac under OS X) may be found most easily on the System 7 Today site.

A quick guide for beginners and upgraders: WordPerfect 3.5e is not an upgrade of earlier versions; it is a full replacement for earlier versions, and can be installed even if you have no earlier version on your system. If you have version 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, or 3.5.4, you should not attempt to upgrade your existing copy; instead, you should replace it with version 3.5e, the version which is available as a free download and was formerly sold (in a slightly earlier version) on CD. Your course of action depends on whether you start with the downloaded version or the CD. See the section for upgraders below.

(a) If you are copying WordPerfect for the Mac from one PowerPC Mac to another:

First, find the 'Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced' folder on your old Mac and copy it into any convenient folder on your New Mac. Second, open the folder named 'System Folder' (not the folder named 'System' if you have one) on your old Mac, then open the folder named 'Preferences' inside it, and find the 'WordPerfect' folder inside it; copy this 'WordPerfect' folder to your new Mac, where it belongs in the folder named 'System Folder', inside the folder named 'Preferences', exactly matching its location on your old Mac. Third and last, again open the folder named 'System Folder' in your old Mac, then the folder named 'Fonts', and copy all the files with names that begin 'WP' to the folder named 'Fonts' inside the folder named 'System Folder' on your new Mac.

(b) For beginners only (if you do not already have a copy of WPMac 3.5e):

To obtain WPMac 3.5e by downloading: Start by downloading the WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced free download. The fastest download is probably from the System 7 Today site, where the link is named WordPerfect 3.5e and the file is named corelwp35e.sea.bin; you may also use the download page at Deakin University in Australia, where the downloaded file is named wordperfect35e.sit. Double-click on the downloaded file to extract the installation program itself. (If nothing happens when you double-click on the archive, download and install The Unarchiver or the free version of Stuffit Expander.) Run the installation program, which is named Install CorelWordPerfect 3.5e; this installs the version dated 28 February 1988, which identifies itself as version 3.5e. Proceed directly to the section below on the OS 8 and 9 updater (which you need even if you are running OS X).

Note: Both the System 7 Today and Deakin University sites also have a freely-downloadable reduced version of Corel Graphics Suite 8, containing Corel PhotoPaint 8 LE and CorelDraw 8 LE (LE = Limited Edition).

(c) For upgraders only (if you already have a copy of WPMac 3.5e):

If you already have WPMac on your system, determine which version you have before proceeding with the rest of this page. Find the WordPerfect program file in the Finder, click on it to select it, and use File/Get Info.. (or press Command-I). The Enhanced version, when patched with the OS 8-9 updater (which is also needed for use with OS X), identifies itself as version 3.5e2ß0. If you have any other version, read the upgrading instructions that follow.

If you started from a WPMac 3.5e CD: If and only if you already have the WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack CD and have already installed WP from that CD only: the program that you installed from the CD is dated 2 August 1997 and identifies itself as version 3.5e. You need the WordPerfect 3.5e Updater.sit archive file (sometimes referred to as the '1998 patch'), available from the Info-Mac Archive site under the name wordperfect-35e-patch.hqx. Download the 2.4 MB archive and extract the updater file. (If nothing happens when you double-click on the downloaded archive, download and install The Unarchiver or the free version of Stuffit Expander.) The updater file inside the archive will be dated 28 September 1988 and should be about 1.9 MB in size. When you run it, it should find the 3.5e program installed from the original CD and will update a number of files. The resulting updated WP program will still identify itself as version 3.5e, but its creation date will be changed to 28 February 1988. Remember: You do not need this updater file if you have the downloadable version of 3.5e described in the preceding paragraph! After using the 3.5e updater, proceed to the paragraph immediately below about the OS 8 and 9 Updater (which you need even if you are running OS X).

(d) For both beginners and upgraders:

The OS 8 and 9 Updater (for use also with OS X through 10.4): No matter which version you started with, whether you began with the version dated 28 February 1998 or you patched the CD version to arrive at that date, you should apply the confusingly-named WP 3.5e.updater (typically found in a folder named WP Updater for OS 8 and 9). The updater can be found at the System 7 Today site under the name 'WordPerfect Final Updates', or at the Yahoo WordPerfectMac group under the name WP Updater for OS 8 and 9.sit, or at the download page at Deakin University in Australia, above the line 'Version: updates etc.', where the downloaded file is named wp_update_8x.sit. (If nothing happens when you double-click on the archive, download and install The Unarchiver or the free version of Stuffit Expander.)

When you unstuff the file, you will find a folder named WP Updater for OS 8 and 9; this contains an updater file dated 11 January 2000 and about 392 KB in size. When you run it, it will display a dialog that asks you select a file that you wish to update; first select Corel WordPerfect (or similar name) and click Update; then, when the updater returns you to the menu, choose English (USA) and click Update. It does not hurt to choose English (CAN) or any other file on the list, but the updater may refuse to update it. The resulting Corel WordPerfect program file will identify itself as version 3.5e2β0 and have a creation date of 2 January 1999 and a modification date of 11 October 1999.

Note: The folder named WP Updater for OS 8 and 9 also contains a file named Outlining Fix; no matter what version of the Mac OS you are using, open this file in your fully updated copy of WP and follow the instructions. A Read Me file in the same folder has further information. The fixes introduced by this file include major improvements in both outlining and paragraph numbering. (Without the fix, the outlining buttons on the WPMac 3.5e toolbar cause obsolete commands in the program's Library file to be run instead of the more powerful commands built into the 'English (USA)' file.)

WPMac conversion filters and additional fonts:If you started from a WPMac 3.5e CD, you have a thorough set of file converters that WPMac can use to convert files to and from PC versions of WPDOS and WPWin, and to and from many other formats. If and only if you started from a downloadable version of WPMac 3.5e (and not from the Enhancement Pack CD), then you should download the full set of WP conversion filters from the Yahoo WordPerfectMac group; look under Conversions for the file named WordPerfect Conversions 2.1.sit. (If nothing happens when you double-click on the downloaded file, download and install The Unarchiver or the free version of Stuffit Expander.) If and only if you started from a downloadable version of WPMac 3.5e (and not from the Enhancement Pack CD) you may also want to download the set of fonts that correspond to the fonts supplied with WPDOS and WPWin; on the WordPerfectMac group at Yahoo, choose the file named WP Character Sets.hqx.

(e) For users of older versions who do not want the final version:

If you want to continue to use the non-'enhanced' version of WordPerfect for the Macintosh 3.5: If you have the original WPMac 3.5 version (not the enhanced 3.5e version), and for any reason you prefer to update WordPerfect 3.5 to 3.5.3 or 3.5.4 instead of to 3.5e Enhanced (perhaps you still run System 6 on your Macintosh SE?), you may find updaters at the Auburn University ftp site. If necessary, you may use the 'WordPerfect 3.5.3 Updater' to update 3.5, 3.5.1, or 3.5.2 to become 3.5.3; or, preferably, use the 'WP 3.5.4 Updater' to update any 3.5 version to 3.5.4.

Configure WPMac and Classic printing

Give WPMac the memory it needs to run quickly: When WPMac is installed, click on its icon and press Command-I, and in the Corel WordPerfect Info dialog, click on the arrow next to Memory. If you have 128MB or more in your computer, set the Minimum Size at 10000 (ten thousand) KB or some other generous figure, and set the preferred size as 20000 (twenty thousand) KB. Close the Info dialog.

Avoid insufficient-memory errors when printing: Some Classic (and pure OS 9) printers may generate a 'not enough memory' error message when you try to print from Classic applications. To avoid this problem, use the Finder to go to your System Folder (the one with the 9 on its Finder icon), then the Extensions folder, and highlight Desktop PrintMonitor. Click on its icon and press Command-I, and in the Desktop PrintMonitor Info dialog, click on the arrow next to Memory. If you have 128MB or more in your computer, set the Minimum Size at 5000 KB or some other generous figure, and set the preferred size as 10000 (ten thousand) KB. Close the Info dialog.

Know where to install fonts: If you want WPMac to use the fonts on your system, you must install them in the Fonts folder inside the System Folder (not the folder named System). Only fonts in this folder will be usable by Classic applications. Further details are on this support page on Apple's web site.

A Spotlight import filter for WP files

OS X 10.4 (and later versions) includes Spotlight, a feature that automatically indexes files for instant access. Gero Herrmann has written an import filter that allows Spotlight to index WPMac files. It may be downloaded from his web site. Installation instructions are included. After installing the filter, open a terminal and enter this command in order to import all existing WordPerfect documents into Spotlight:

mdimport -r /Library/Spotlight/WordPerfect.mdimporter

AppleScript droplets for opening WPDOS and WPWin files in WPMac

If you copy documents created in WordPerfect for DOS or WordPerfect for Windows to your Macintosh, WordPerfect for the Macintosh may not recognize the files as WP files, and may not even list them in its File/Open dialog. This problem can be solved with two AppleScript 'droplets' (scripts that process files that you drop on their icons) created by John Rethorst and downloadable in this Stuffit archive. Download the archive; click on it to open it; and place the two droplet applications in any convenient location on your disk (including your desktop). One droplet is for use with documents created with WordPerfect 5.x; the other is for documents created by WordPerfect 6 or any later version. The droplets are clearly named to avoid confusion.

Automatically set the zoom level and window size for WPMac

WordPerfect for the Macintosh was written for different screen sizes than those on today's computers, so many users change the zoom level for comfort. Also, on Macs running OS X, the dock, which by default occupies the bottom edge of the screen, interferes with the lower edge of the default WPMac window. To fix both or either of these problems, create a macro by following these instructions from John Rethorst. Note that you can add actions to this macro to perform any other configuration that you want to perform automatically on any new document window.

Start recording a new macro; give it any name you like; then: (1) size the front window as you wish, (2) move the window where you want it to be, and (3) from the Layout bar, set a zoom level.

Stop recording and look at the macro window. You'll see something like:

Size Window ('untitled';581;338)
Move Window ('untitled';22;75)
Layout Bar (Show)
Magnification (150.0)
Layout Bar (Hide)

which needs to be edited so that it does not operate on a window specifically named 'untitled' (or whatever window you modified while recording the macro), but instead on the front window, whatever it is. You can also remove the lines, if any, that show and hide the Layout bar. Finally, it's a good idea to refresh the display at the end of a macro. So the final macro will look something like this:

Size Window (FrontWindow;581;338)
Move Window (FrontWindow;22;75)
Magnification (150.0)
Display (On)

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If you sized and moved the window more than once to get it right while recording the macro, you can delete all but the last Size and Move commands.

To have this macro run on all existing documents that you open, name it 'OnOpenDocument'. To have it run on all new windows as well, create a template (you don't need to put anything in it) named 'New Document Template,' and save the template in your templates folder.

Unfortunately, if you want to use the WPMac status bar, it will always occupy the lower edge of the screen, and the only way to keep it from being obscured by the OS X dock is to move the dock (in System Preferences/Dock) to the left or right edge of the screen, or to specify the setting in the OS X System Preferences application that automatically hides the dock. (You may also want to try one or the other of the scripts in the following section.)

Automatically move the OS X dock when running WPMac

If you want to move the OS X dock to the right of the screen while WPMac is running, use one or the other of the two scripts. The first moves the dock to the right when WPMac is first launched, and restores it to the bottom of the screen when WPMac closes. The second, which should be used only on fast machines (nothing slower than, perhaps, a 1.2MHz G4 machine) temporaily moves the dock back to the bottom of the screen when you move the focus away from WPMac, and moves it to the right again when WPMac regains the focus. These scripts could not have been written without the help of John Rethorst.

To use these scripts. open the OS X Script Editor application, which should display an untitled script window. Copy and paste the text of one of the following two scripts into the window, and click on Compile. From the File menu, choose Save. In the Save as dialog, assign a descriptive file name; if you choose the first script, name it something like WPMoveDock; if you choose the second, name it something like WPMoveDockWithFocus. Choose the option to save the file as an Application, and select Stay Open; save the application in any convenient place, perhaps your Applications folder. Now test the application script. If it works, use this application script to launch WPMac instead of the WPMac icon itself; I recommend that you assign one of the icons found elsewhere on this page to the application script (see the notes on the icons to learn how to do so), and drag the application script to the dock so that you can launch the application script with a mouse click.

The two scripts follow (but first read this note):

Note: In the scripts below, the '¬' character (inserted by pressing option-Enter) tells the Script Editor that the next line continues the current line; in other words, everything from 'tell' to the two closing parentheses is really a single command. The '¬' character is not needed under OS X 10.3 'Panther' (it is required in earlier versions), because you can type the entire command on a single line and the Script Editor will format it correctly. But it does not hurt to have the character, and I have included it here for the sake of clarity.

(1) An AppleScript that moves the dock when WPMac is launched

(2) An AppleScript that moves the dock when WP is the active application

Creating PDF files from Classic or other applications (for OS X 10.4 'Tiger')

Under Mac OS X 10.4 ('Tiger') you can print directly to PDF files from most OS X applications, but not from Classic applications. Two methods are widely available; use whichever seems easiest.

(1) Download and install the Tiger-compatible version of CUPS-PDF for OS X. Follow the installation instructions on the download page. Note that this method overwrites any existing PDF file with a new one with the same name; if you understand the Mac OS X command line you can modify this behavior by opening a terminal window and, after giving yourself root privileges, edit the file /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf, and change the 'Label' option from 0 to 1.

Or, if you prefer a method that automatically uses a different output filename instead of overwriting a file, choose the following method:

(2) This technique, based on a series of posts at MacOSXhints.com, creates a separate PDF Writer printer that works in both Classic and OS X applications.

At the foot of this section is a script in typewriter-style text. Big mac deal 2 for 5. To begin, select this script; copy and paste it into a text editor (perhaps TextEdit); and save it from your text editor as /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf and then close the editor.

Next, in a terminal, enter the following two commands. The first makes the script executable; the second restarts the CUPS printing system daemon so that it can find the new script for use in printing (you may be asked for your password):

sudo chmod a+x /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf
sudo killall -HUP cupsd

Next, open the OS X Printer Setup Utility (found in your Applications/Utilities folder) and create the PDF Writer printer. To do this, first click Add. Then, in the Printer Browser window, hold down the Option key and click More Printers.. From the top dropdown menu, select Advanced. From the Device dropdown menu choose PDF Writer. For a Device Name, use any name you like, perhaps PDFWriter; for the Device URI enter PDF://~/Desktop and leave the Printer Model as Generic. Finally click Add. Wait a few seconds until PDFWriter appears in the list of installed printers. Close the Printer Setup Utility.

PDF files created by this script appear on your desktop; the script checks to see if an output PDF file already exists, and, if so, the script saves the new file under a different name from the existing one. A log file is created each time you print (/tmp/pdf.log) and will be cleaned out with the rest of the /tmp directory when you restart.

You should be able to choose the PDFWriter printer from WordPerfect's print dialog and create PDF files which will appear on your desktop. If you do not see PDFWriter listed in the print dialog, restart Classic.

The following (down to the horizontal line) is the script that must be saved as /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf :

Creating PDF files from Classic applications (for OS X 10.3 'Panther' only)

Applications written for Mac OS X can automatically create PDF files (Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat files), but applications written for earlier Mac OS versions can also create PDF files automatically, although some initial setup is required. The following procedures work flawlessly under Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther'; a simpler procedure described in a section above is far preferable for 10.4 'Tiger'.

The instructions refer specifically to WPMac, but can easily be applied to any Classic application.

Similar but not identical procedures are possible under Mac OS X 10.2 'Jaguar' (10.2.4 or later), but require much more extensive setup and additional downloads that are not documented here (but see this note for some basic guidance).

Note: If you use only the standard Times New Roman (or Times Roman) and Helvetica fonts, you may want to consider using the shareware PrintToPDF printer driver for OS 7/8/9 and Classic instead of the method described here. PrintToPDF is a well-written program, but I do not recommend it for use with WPMac for these reasons: (1) it does not embed fonts, so any PDF files viewed on other computers than your own will not display the fonts you specified in your documents, and (2) it performs unreliably with graphics-rich WPMac documents. (However, because PrintToPDF does not embed fonts, it also produces small PDF files, and you may consider this an advantage of the program. Keep in mind, however, that you can produce small PDF files using the method below, simply by specifying in the print dialog of WPMac that fonts not be embedded.)

First (very important), follow this page's recommendations for customizing the Classic environment. Next, perform the following steps numbered (1) through (8), which will create a freeware PDF Distiller for Classic; the Distiller will operate by saving WPMac print files to a folder, from which they will automatically be converted into PDF files by software built in to OS X.

(1) Create a folder in which to save WPMac output print files and PDF files (I will refer to this as your queue folder); you may want to do as I did, and create a folder named WPQueue in the root folder of your boot partition. After creating the folder, Ctrl-click on it, and on the contextual menu, click Enable Folder Actions. Ctrl-click on the folder again, choose Attach a Folder Action. A Finder window will open on the Folder Actions Script folder; from the list on the right, select 'convert - PostScript to PDF.scpt' (you may need to switch the window to list view to read the full name). Click Choose and close the window.

Note: In OS X 10.2 'Jaguar,' it was necessary to install a script icon in the menubar before folder actions could be enabled. This step is no longer required in 10.3 'Panther'; folder actions are accessible from each folder's contextual menu, whether or not the menubar script icon is installed.

(2) Now download (if you do not already have on your system) the Adobe PS driver for Mac OS 8/9; choose the Version 8.8 printer driver. After downloading it, either double-click on the .SEA file or use Stuffit Expander to unpack the file; choose the Desktop as the location to which to expand the contents. The expander will create a folder with a name like 'US' or some other pair of letters; inside the folder will be a folder named Adobe PS; inside that folder will be an installer; run the installer. If it suggests that you Restart when finished, do so. To be doubly careful, when the installer has finished, click on the '9' icon on the OS X menubar (also known as the Classic menulet) and choose Restart Classic.

Note: The Adobe installer will create a folder in your root folder named 'AdobePS Components'; you may delete this folder, but it does no harm to keep it.

(3) Open WPMac. From the Classic Apple menu (the one with the striped Apple) go to the Chooser, and highlight AdobePS. Do not click in the right panel of the Chooser under 'Select a PostScript Printer,' even if one or more printers appear on the list; do not click the Create button. Simply close the Chooser, and click OK if a message appears that tells you to use Page Setup in your application.

(4) Type a few words in WPMac, and press Command-P to print. In the printer dialog, if the Printer is not listed as Virtual Printer, click on the Printer name and select Virtual Printer. If the Destination is not File, make it so. From the dropdown menu select PostScript Settings; specify the format as PostScript Job (it may already be specfied as this); choose 'Level 1, 2 and 3 Compatible' (which may already be chosen; the other settings may also work well); specify ASCII as the Data Format; and under Font Inclusion, I strongly recommend that you select either 'All but Standard 13' or, preferably, 'All.' Click Save Settings. Click Save in the lower right corner of the dialog. In the folder-selection dialog that appears, the folder you created in step (1) probably will not appear; navigate to it by starting from the desktop or your hard disk, so that the name of the folder appears at the top of the dialog box. The filename will be specified as untitled.ps; change it if you like, but there is no reason to do so. Click Save. You can leave WPMac running, but it may be less confusing to quit it until a later stage in these instructions.

(5) Use the Finder to navigate to the folder you created in step (1). It will now contain two folders, Original Files, which contains the .PS file that you created and saved in step (4), and PDF Files, which contains the PDF file that was automatically created by the folder action script you applied in step (1). You may open the PDF file in Preview or rename it or do anything else you want with it.

(6a) In order to prevent your output .PS files from accumulating in the Original Files folder, create and attach a folder action script that will delete older files when a new one is added. To do this, go to your Applications folder, find the AppleScript folder; and run the Script Editor program inside it. Create a new AppleScript with the following lines:

on adding folder items to TheFolder
set the obsolete_date to the (the current date) - 2 * days
tell application 'Finder' to delete ¬
(every file of TheFolder whose ¬
(creation date is less than the obsolete_date) ¬
and (name extension is 'ps'))
end adding folder items to

Note: The '¬' character (inserted by pressing option-Enter) tells the Script Editor that the next line continues the current line; in other words, everything from 'tell' to the two closing parentheses is really a single command. The '¬' character is not needed under OS X 10.3 'Panther' (it is required in earlier versions), because you can type the entire command on a single line and the Script Editor will format it correctly. But it does not hurt to have the character, and I have included it here for the sake of clarity.

After typing the script, click on Compile. From the File menu, choose Save. In the Save as dialog, assign the file name 'deleteOldPS - Delete PS files older than 2 days'; click the down arrow next to the Save as field, and navigate to the root directory of your system disk, choose Library, Scripts, Folder Action Scripts; choose the file format 'Script'; click Save. Close the Script Editor. (Many thanks to Michelle Steiner for help in getting this script to work.)

(6b) Using the Finder, open the folder you created in step (1), then select the folder Original Files. Ctrl-click on the folder, choose Attach a Folder Action, and choose the 'deleteOldPS' script that you created in the step (6a). Click Choose, and close all windows.

(7a) If you want your PDF files to open automatically in Preview as soon as they are created, go to your Applications folder, find the AppleScript folder, and run the Script Editor program inside it. Create a new AppleScript with the following three lines:

on adding folder items to TheFolder after receiving FilesToView
tell application 'Preview' to open FilesToView
end adding folder items to

Click on Compile. From the File menu, choose Save. In the Save as dialog, assign the filename 'openPDF - Open Added File in Preview'; click the down arrow next to the Save as filed, and navigate to the root directory of your system disk, choose Library, Scripts, Folder Action Scripts; choose the file format 'Script'; click Save. Close the Script Editor.

(7b) Using the Finder, open the folder you created in step (1), then select the folder PDF Files. Ctrl-click on the folder, choose Attach a Folder Action, and choose the 'openPDF' script that you created in the step (7a). Click Choose, and close all windows.

Note: The Preview application in OS X 10.3 'Panther' can open PostScript files for viewing so that you can save them as PDF files, but the procedure on this page converts PostScript files into PDF files before opening them in Preview, in order to avoid the additional step of saving the files from Preview.

(8) Launch and return to WPMac and open or create a file. 'Print' to the Virtual printer as you did in the same way you did in step (4), and wait for the resulting PDF file to open in Preview.

Problem-solving: If an error message appears when you try to use this procedure, open the OS 9 System Folder (not the folder named 'System'; the one named 'System Folder'), then the Preferences folder, then the Printing Prefs folder, and delete the AdobePS Prefs file. Then reinstall the Adobe PS driver.

Note about Mac OS 10.2 'Jaguar': If you want to attempt to implement a similar procedure under Mac OS 10.2 'Jaguar', do not waste your time in trying to use the built-in AppleScript from Mac OS 10.3 'Panther' that converts PostScript files to PDF files; this script does not work under Mac OS 10.2 'Jaguar,' partly because it makes use of programs that are part of Mac OS 10.3 but not present in earlier versions. Instead, you will need to download, install, and learn to use the shareware application MacGhostView, which includes a program named macps2pdf. You will then need to write a folder action script that runs macps2pdf to convert any PostScript file that is added to a folder to which the script is attached. You will need to study the MacGhostView documentation in order to accomplish this. (Alternatively, you can download one of the easily-locatable freeware Mac OS X versions of Ghostscript and use it instead of MacGhostView, but only highly experienced AppleScript programmers should attempt this.)

Print from Classic applications to OS X-only printers

Instructions for OS X 10.4 'Tiger':

To print to an OS X printer from WPMac or other Classic applications, start WPMac, go to the Apple menu, then Chooser, and, in the left-hand window, choose LaserWriter8. You need not select anything in the right-hand window. Then print normally from WPMac. The printer that is named at the top of the Print dialog should be your default OS X printer, but you will be able to select any other printer that you have defined in OS X by selecting a printer from the dropdown menu.

Troubleshooting, part I: If you do not see your printer in the WP Print dialog, use the Finder and go to System Folder (the one with the '9' on it), then Preferences, then Printing Prefs, and drag the file 'LaserWriter 8 Prefs' to the desktop. Now print from WP; if printing works correctly, trash the file that you dragged to the desktop; otherwise, you may prefer to put it back.

Troubleshooting, part II: If you only see one of your printers in the Print dialog, then go to the OS X System Preferences application, choose Printers and Fax and temporarily change your default printer; print again from WP, and you should see all your printers in the drop-down list in the Print dialog. You may now restore your original default printer in OS X.

Instructions for OS X 10.3 'Panther' (and probably earlier):

The printer drivers that Mac OS X uses for printing cannot be used when printing from Classic applications, which require the same kind of printer drivers used by OS 9 and earlier. Some printers that work smoothly with OS X cannot be used under Classic, either because no OS 8/9 printer drivers exist for these printers or because, in your particular system, they are accessible only through a Microsoft Windows network. The following method allows you to print from a Classic application like WPMac to an OS X printer without any intervention. This method works under OS X 10.3 'Panther' and (if you want to use it for any reason) OS X 10.4 'Tiger'; similar methods should work under earlier versions.

This method is complicated to set up, but once it is set up correctly, it is very simple to use. To print with this method, you can print the current document simply by pressing Command-P, Enter, Enter.

Note: This method is very similar to the method described elsewhere on this page for creating PDF files from Classic applications, and if you use both methods, you need not repeat some of the steps.

First (very important), follow this page's recommendations for customizing the Classic environment. Next, follow the steps described immediately below, numbered (1) through (5), which create a folder to which WPMac will 'print' output files that will automatically be printed by OS X. (Many thanks to Patrick Stadelmann for help in writing the following scripts, and to Dave Howell for improvements borrowed from a public posting.)

(1) Go your Applications folder, find the AppleScript folder, and run the Script Editor program inside it. If you have only one printer installed in OS X, create a new AppleScript with the following lines:

If you have more than one printer installed in OS X, and you always want to print from WPMac to one specific printer, go to the Apple Menu, then System Preferences, then Print & Fax, then Set Up Printers, and carefully note the exact name of the printer you want to print to from WPMac. You may want to close the printer list and System Preferences after carefully noting the name you want to use. Then create a new AppleScript with the following lines, but with 'NAME OF THE PRINTER YOU WANT' replaced by the name of the printer that you really do want (and, yes, you must put the printer name inside quotation marks):

Whichever script you decide to write, click on Compile when finished. From the File menu, choose Save. In the Save as dialog, assign the filename 'classicPrint - Print from Classic to OS X'; click the down arrow next to the Save as field, and navigate to the root directory of your system disk, choose Library, Scripts, Folder Action Scripts; choose the file format 'Script'; click Save. Close the Script Editor.

(2) Create a folder in which to save WPMac output print files (I will refer to this as your printqueue folder); you may want to do as I did, and create a folder named PrintQueue in the root folder of your boot partition. It should not be the same folder used for the method described elsewhere on this page for creating PDF files.After creating the folder, Ctrl-click on it, and on the contextual menu, click Enable Folder Actions. Ctrl-click on the folder again, choose Attach a Folder Action. A Finder window will open on the Folder Actions Script folder; from the list on the right, select 'classicPrint - Print from Classic to OS X.scpt' (you may need to switch the window to list view to read the full name). Click Choose and close the window.

(3) Now download (if you do not already have on your system) the Adobe PS driver for Mac OS 8/9; choose the Version 8.8 printer driver. After downloading it, either double-click on the .SEA file or use Stuffit Expander to unpack the file; choose the Desktop as the location to which to expand the contents. The expander will create a folder with a name like 'US' or some other pair of letters; inside the folder will be a folder named Adobe PS; inside that folder will be an installer; run the installer. If it suggests that you Restart when finished, do so. To be doubly careful, when the installer has finished, click on the '9' icon on the OS X menubar (also known as the Classic menulet) and choose Restart Classic.

Note: The Adobe installer will create a folder in your root folder named 'AdobePS Components'; you may delete this folder, but it does no harm to keep it.

(4) Open WPMac. From the Classic Apple menu (the one with the striped Apple) go to the Chooser, and highlight AdobePS. Do not click in the right panel of the Chooser under 'Select a PostScript Printer,' even if one or more printers appear on the list; do not click the Create button. Simply close the Chooser, and click OK if a message appears that tells you to use page setup in your application.

(5) Type a few words in WPMac, and press Command-P to print. In the printer dialog, if the Printer shown at the top is not 'Virtual Printer', click on the Printer item, and make it 'Virtual Printer.' If the Destination is not File, make it so. From the dropdown menu select PostScript Settings; specify the format as PostScript Job (it may already be specified as this); you may accept the default settings elsewhere on the page unless you have a good reason to do otherwise. Click Save Settings. Click Save in the lower right corner of the dialog. In the folder-selection dialog that appears, the folder you created in step (2) probably will not appear; navigate to it by starting from the desktop or your hard disk until the name of the folder appears at top of the dialog box. The file Name will be specified as untitled.ps; there is no need to change it. Click Save. After a few moments, the document should print.

Customize OS X Classic to make it more convenient to use

This paragraph applies to Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther' and 10.4 'Tiger', not to 10.2 'Jaguar' or earlier versions. Before proceeding with the printing methods described below, set up the Classic environment for convenient access to its features. From the Mac OS X Apple Menu, choose System Preferences, then Classic. Place a checkmark next to 'Start Classic when you login' (and you may want to place a checkmark next to 'Hide Classic when starting'); also place a checkmark next to 'Show Classic status in menu bar'. On the Advanced page, remove the checkmark (if present) next to 'Use Mac OS 9 preferences from your home folder'; then click Rebuild Desktop so that the Classic status menu will display the correct icons. Close System Preferences. Notice the '9' icon on your menubar; this icon is also known as the Classic menulet.

Marc Moini's Smart Scroll lets you adjust the speed of the Mac OS scroll bar, puts arrows at both ends of the scroll bar, and resizes the 'thumb' on the scroll bar to reflect the relative size of the area on the screen and the total size of the document. At the request of John Rethorst, the author has made the utility available at no cost to WordPerfect users; at the registration screen enter the name 'WordPerfect user group' (without quotation marks) and use the registration code GKYF.

If you use a PowerBook or iBook, you may want to use the function keys without being required to press the Fn key in combination with them (and you may want to be able to do this everywhere in OS X, not only in Classic); under Mac OS X 10.3.3 ('Panther') and later versions, you can make the function keys work in this convenient way by opening System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse, and adding a checkmark next to 'Use the F1-F12 keys for custom actions'; then log out and back in again. You can fine-tune this setting, so that some F-keys are usable with the Fn key, but not others by using the free FunctionFlip utility.

Note: Under OS X 10.3.2 and earlier versions, you will need separate utilities to modify the function keys as described above; two freeware programs that you might try are fnSwitch (which affects only the function keys) and uControl (a complete keyboard remapper).

OS X-style Finder icons for WordPerfect for the Macintosh

Like other pre-OS X applications, WPMac uses an older style of program icon that appears blotchy and unattractive in the OS X Finder and Dock, especially when the icon appears is sizes larger than 32x32 pixels. You may replace the original icon with either of the two OS X icons illustrated here. They were both prepared by the author of this site, one from a globe-and-pen image that appeared in the splash screen of Novell WordPerfect 3.5 and also on some printed material associated with Novell WordPerfect, the other from the same pen nib used in the first icon, combined with the globe from the Corel WordPerfect 3.5 splash screen. This second icon more closely resembles the original icon for Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced.

To install these icons, download this Stuffit archive. Double-click on it to extract to your desktop a folder named 'wpmacosxicons Folder'. (If nothing happens when you double-click on the archive, download and install The Unarchiver or the free version of Stuffit Expander.) Inside the folder are two files, 'WPMac Novell Finder Icon for OSX' and 'WPMac Corel Finder Icon for OSX.'

Select the icon that looks best to you, and press Command-I (or File/Get Info) to open the file's Get Info window. In the Get Info window, click on the icon under the General heading so that it has a light blue outline. Press Command-C (or Edit/Copy) to copy the new icon to the clipboard. Press Ctrl-W to close the Get Info window. Now, find your copy of Corel WordPerfect 3.5 (or other version) in the Finder. Select the file, press Command-I (or File/Get Info) to open the Get Info window, and click on the icon under the General heading so that it has a light blue outline. Press Command-V (or Edit/Paste). Close the Get Info window. (Note that the image under the Preview heading may not change until you close and reopen that section of the Get Info window.) Your new icon should now appear wherever the original one appeared.

If you want to return to the original icon, or replace the new one with a different one, reopen the Corel WordPerfect Get Info window, click on the icon under the General heading, and press Delete. Close the Get Info window, and the original icon will reappear. If you want to change from one new icon to another, I recommend that you explicitly remove the first icon before pasting the second, in order to avoid a Finder bug that sometimes makes new icons difficult to remove when a new icon is pasted over an icon that had previously been pasted into the same application.

Bring back the menubar printer selection icon from OS 8/9 (not needed for OS X 10.4)

If you have more than one printer installed under Classic you probably do not want to go to the trouble of opening the Chooser, clicking on a different printer, and then clicking OK every time you want to change printers. In most OS 8/9 systems, a small printer icon on the menubar (the desktop printer menu) allowed you to select a printer from the icon's dropdown menu. This icon is not normally available on the Classic menubar.

First (very important), follow this page's recommendations for customizing the Classic environment. Now you can regain the ability to select a printer from a menubar icon in Classic by downloading and installing Kerry Clendinning's shareware PrintChoice utility. Download and unstuff the archive, open the resulting folder, and drag the PrintChoice control panel to the System Folder used by your Classic environment; when a message box pops up to ask if the item should be put where it needs to be, click Continue. Click the '9' icon in the OS X menu bar (also known as the Classic menulet) and choose Restart Classic.

Note: If you decide to use this program and want to reward the author for providing it, do not use the postal address in the documentation. Instead pay through this link to the PayPal payment service.

After Classic restarts, click the '9' icon again on the OS X menubar. Choose Apple Menu Items, then Control Panels, then PrintChoice. In the PrintChoice dialog, choose On, and, for Chooser Location, choose Both. You may leave the two checkboxes blank or experiment with them if you wish. Close the PrintChoice dialog.

Open any Classic application and click on the printer icon near the far right of the Classic menubar. One of the items on the dropdown menu will read 'Add' followed by the name of your default Classic printer; select that item; in the resulting dialog box, edit the name if you want a shorter name in the dropdown menu. Click on the icon again and select Chooser. Select another of your printers and close the Chooser. Again click on the printer icon; one of the items on the dropdown menu will be read 'Add' followed by the name of the printer you selected; select that item, and continue until all the printers that want on the dropdown are included. You may now switch among Classic printers by clicking on the printer icon and selecting the printer you want to use, and you need not go to the Chooser.

Note: If you want quick desktop access to the Chooser, open your System Folder, then Apple Menu Items, then select Chooser, hold down Command-Alt and drag an alias of the Chooser to your desktop.

Install OS 9-only printer drivers on OS X-only Macs

Some OS 9 printer drivers (notably drivers for some HP all-in-one models) can be installed only by booting into OS 9, not by launching the installer in Classic under OS X. Most Macintosh models released in 2003 or later will not start in OS 9. The solution (from an anonymous tip posted on MacOSXhints.com) is this:

Control-click on the installer icon and select Show package contents. Then navigate to Contents -> Mac OS. You will find the actual installer program here. Control-click on it and select Show info. Now enable the 'Open in classic' checkbox in the info window. Finally, double-click on this installer program inside the package contents; the program opens in the Classic environment and installs the driver.

How to make Classic look like OS X

Menus, dialog boxes, and fonts in Classic look jarringly different from those in OS X. There are ways of making Classic look much like OS X, and they are listed in this section for those who want to experiment with the possibilities. After making the experiment, and finding too many subtle incompatibilities and inconveniences, I have abandoned all the tools mentioned here, but you may want to try them yourself.

Fonts in Classic are not 'smoothed' on screen in the same way that fonts in OS X itself are smoothed. You may want to experiment with Greg Landweber's SmoothType control panel for Classic and install it (it costs US$10 if you keep it). Experiment with the font smoothing settings that produce the best results in WPMac.

The first tool to use to change the appearance of Classic is the shareware utility Kaleidoscope, by Greg Landweber and Arlo Rose (US$20 if you keep it). This includes a set of 'schemes' that change the appearance of OS 9, whether your system boots in OS 9 or whether OS 9 runs in Classic mode under OS X. Install it according to the instructions. Warning: John Rethorst reports that Kaleidoscope conflicts with WPMac's contextual thesaurus; if you bring up the thesaurus, but release the mouse button without selecting a replacement word, Kaleidoscope causes the first word on the replacement list to be entered anyway, complete with its part of speech notation, such as (n) or (v).

Download from a third-party site a 'scheme' to use with Kaleidoscope; the various Aqua X schemes are highly recommended online, but I have not tested any of them.

A page at LowEndMac.com gives this method for extracting an OS 9 version of the Lucida Grande font used as the system font in OS X (it presumably refers to ancient OS 9 versions of iTunes, not more recent ones): 'Open iTunes in ResEdit, or Resorcerer. Also create a new ResEdit file on the desktop, and name it Lucida Grande. From iTunes, copy the 'stfnt' and 'FOND' resources and paste them into your new file. Get info on the new file (in your resource editing program), and change the type to FFIL and the creator to DMOV. Save the file. You will now notice that the file has a font icon on it when you return to the Finder. If you open it, you will see the Lucida Grande font sample. Drop it onto your system folder to use it.' You may then select the font in the Kaleidoscope control panel on the General Options tab, under Substitute System Font; set the size as 12pt. (However, for this purpose you may prefer the Verdana font that is available in most Classic systems.)

Some outlining software for Classic

John Rethorst's Outlining Fix file for WordPerfect 3.5e (described elsewhere on this page) corrects a mistake that crept into final patch for the program; without the fix, the outlining buttons on the WPMac 3.5e toolbar cause obsolete commands in the program's Library file to be run instead of the more powerful commands built into the 'English (USA)' file.

In the early days of the Macintosh, many other single-purpose outlining programs were available, and some are now available as free downloads. For a general overview, see Ted Goranson's About This Particular Outliner, with links (some broken) to many individual programs; these include the Macintosh outliner, Acta, available from its own website. Another Macintosh outliner, Clay Basket, primarily designed as a web site organizer, is not available from the download page listed on its own web site, but may be downloaded from this link instead.

An automatic font replacement macro

See the information on another page.

How to open or convert WPMac files in other programs and formats

See the information on another page. See also a separate page about converting WP files to other formats under OS X.

Links, documentation, and other useful material

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This page describes the WPMacApp, a system that runs WordPerfect for the Macintosh 3.5 Enhanced in a window on any current Macintosh computer. The system uses the SheepShaver emulator software to run the 'classic' Mac OS, and runs WordPerfect inside a copy of the 'classic' Mac OS. The WPMacApp runs under OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, macOS 10.14 Mojave, and macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Under macOS 10.5 Catalina and later versions, this is a paid application; please get in touch with me via the feedback page for details.

The WPMacApp is updated frequently. This page describes the version released in October 2019. This version uses a 64-bit version of SheepShaver.

The WPMacApp for Windows: A version of the WPMacApp that runs under Windows is also available; its features and similar to the OS X/macOS version. You may download and install it from this link, and I will document it if anyone has any interest in it.

Note: If you want to run WordPerfect for DOS on modern Macintosh hardware, see a separate page. If you have WordPerfect for DOS or WordPerfect for Windows documents that you want to open in Microsoft Word for the Mac, you should visit another page on this site.

A brief explanation (not required reading):

• This page provides an 'emulated' PowerPC Macintosh system that runs the 'classic' Mac OS and WordPerfect for the Mac in a window in the OS X/macOS desktop.This system is called the WPMacApp (or WPMac Appliance), and it runs in the form of a window that contains the full desktop of a 1990s-era Macintosh computer. (An 'appliance' is an emulated computer system used for one specific purpose.)
• Like all applications written for older (pre-OS X) versions of the Macintosh operating system, WordPerfect for the Mac cannot run within OS X itself. It will only run inside an 'emulated' Macintosh - a 'virtual' computer created entirely by software, and running in a window on the OS X/macOS desktop. This 'emulated' Macintosh is the software equivalent of a 1990s-era Macintosh that can run System 7 or OS 8 or 9, which are the operating systems in which WordPerfect for the Mac were designed to run.
• Two programs exist that can create an 'emulated' Macintosh, one called SheepShaver, which imitates a PowerPC-based Macintosh capable of running System 7.5.3 through Mac OS 9.0.4. This is the program that is at the heart of the WPMacApp. (An alternate, older, less technically-advanced system, based on Basilisk II, is available on another page.)

To use WordPerfect for the Mac under OS X 10.10 or later, perform the following steps:

• Download the disk image file(warning: around 650 MB). If OS X does not mount it automatically, double-click on the disk image file to mount it in the OS X/macOS Finder.
• Read the 'Read Me First.pdf' file - or at least the first page.
• Drag the WPMacApp icon to the Applications folder icon, and wait while the application is copied to your hard disk.
• Eject the installer disk image by dragging it to the Trash (or click in the installer disk image and type Cmd-E).
• In your Applications folder, double-click the WPMacApp application to launch it. OS X/macOS may warn you that you are running a program downloaded from the Internet and will ask if you want to continue.
• When the WPMacApp opens to the 'classic' Mac OS desktop, WordPerfect will open automatically. You may create a document in WordPerfect or open a document from the 'Unix' folder on the WPMacApp desktop (which corresponds to your OS X/macOS Documents folder).
• You may shut down the WPMacApp by choosing 'Shut Down' from its top-line menu, or by closing its window on the OS X/macOS desktop.

If macOS warns you that the 'WPMacApp is damaged and can't be opened' and tells you to move it to the Trash, do this instead, because that message is false: Right-click on the WPMacApp; click on Open in the pop-up menu; and follow the prompts. You may have to do this twice before the message box shows an Open button. The next time you launch WPMacApp, it will open normally.

If macOS Mojave, Catalina, or later versions asks permission to perform certain actions, grant those permissions; you will only need to do so once.The program will perform exactly as it did under earlier versions of macOS. Mojave introduces prompts for permission that did not appear in earlier versions. If you don't trust my software, don't use my software.

After you run the WPMacApp for the first time, if you want to explore its options, hold down the Option key while launching the application. (Do not try this the first time you launch it!) You can set the following options (and, depending on your OS X/macOS version, possibly others) from the menu that appears:

• Specify whether the default WPMacApp printing system will (1) print the current document in WPMac to the default OS X/macOS printer or (2) ask whether you want to print the current document to the default OS X printer or create a PDF file.
• Change the default screen size for the WPMacApp.
• Select the OS X/macOS folder to use as the 'Unix' folder in the WPMacApp. (By default this is your Documents folder; it can be any other folder you choose.)
• Delete the Preferences file in order to restore the WPMacApp default settings
• Make a backup copy of the WPMacApp disk image file (stored in the app itself) on your OS X/macOS Desktop.
• Prevent WPMac itself from starting up automatically when the WPMacApp starts.

Very serious warning: SheepShaver is an extremely complicated program, and it can be unstable. It may crash without warning, especially when printing. You may see an 'AppleEvent timed out' message when it starts up, and you will need to shut it down and restart it. You should always save your documents to the 'Unix' folder (which, by default, is actually the Documents folder in your OS X/macOS system), because you can lose them if SheepShaver crashes and cannot recover. This warning is serious!

To open WordPerfect documents automatically in the WPMacApp, select a WPMac document in your OS X/macOS system, press Cmd-I for the Get Info dialog, select Open With, and specify WPMacApp (if it is not already selected). You may now open a file in the WPMacApp by double-clicking a WPMac document file, or by dropping a document file on the WPMacApp application itself or any shortcut to it. (Drop a document only on an icon on the desktop or in a Finder window; do not try to drop a file on the dock icon that shows a Mac with a document in its window.) If the WPMacApp is already open, the document file will open in WPMac. The WPMac document file must be in the Documents folder of your OS X/macOS home folder, and the application will warn you if it is not.

To print from WordPerfect, simply press Cmd-P or choose Print from the File menu. Use the default desktop printer, 'Print or Make PDF in OS X.' After an interval of thirty seconds or a minute or more, the document will print from the default OS X/macOS printer. (Search 'PDF' on this page to set an option that will prompt you either to print the document or create a PDF from it that will open in OS X/macOS Preview.)

If you want to select an OS X/macOS printer when you print, instead of printing to the default OS X/macOS printer, then use the desktop printer named 'Select Printer in OS X.'

You may open the WPMacApp application in the OS X/macOS Script Editor to explore additional options and features in this system. If you change any options in the script, the Applescript Editor will take a very long time to close and save the file; be patient.

The WPMacApp automatically installs Gero Herrmann's WordPerfect plug-ins for QuickLook and Spotlight so that WP files can be searched in Spotlight and previewed with QuickLook (hint: use the spacebar when a a file is selected, or use the QuickLook keyboard shortcut Cmd-Y).

If you want to build your own self-contained SheepShaver system for running Mac OS, you can do so easily with my SheepShaver Wrapper application, available elsewhere. You will need a Mac OS installation CD (or disk image of such a CD) and a Mac OS ROM file (easily found on the internet). The SheepShaver Wrapper is a reduced version of the WPMacApp available on the page you are reading now.

Acknowledgments: This system is based on work by John Rethorst, who first devised a SheepShaver/WPMac system and a system for opening files automatically in WPMac after selecting them in OS X, and by Smokey Ardisson, who devised the system for opening WPMac files with an OS X application bundle.

The WPMacApp desktop and how to use it

When the WPMacApp opens, it displays a WordPerfect window that fills much of the screen. If you close or minimize the WordPerfect window, you can see the full WPMacApp desktop, looking more or less like the picture below (the current version may look slightly different). The desktop contains the following icons. (Remember, the WPMacApp normally appears in a window on your OS X desktop.)

The desktop shortcut 'WordPerfect' opens the final version of WordPerfect for the Macintosh. Use it exactly as you would use WordPerfect for the Mac on a real 1980s or 1990s Mac.

The 'Virtual Printers' folder contains the desktop printers used by this system. By default, the application prints to a 'virtual' printer named 'Print or Make PDF in OS X'. Other desktop printers in this folder have self-explanatory names.

The 'Open WP Files in WPMac' folder contains 'droplets' that you can use to open WordPerfect files ((for files created in non-WP formats, such as Microsoft Word, see the paragraph below this onee) in WPMac when you can't (or don't want to) open those files from the WPMac File/Open menu. Drag the files to appropriate droplet to open it in WPMac. The droplet named 'Drop Mac file..' should be used only for WPMac files and Mac-based text files.

The 'Convert to/from WPMac' folder contains droplets that can convert many file formats into other file formats. If you want to edit a Microsoft Word or other non-WP file in WPMac, drop the file on the 'to Corel WordPerfect 3.5e doc' droplet and drag the resulting file to the desktop or some other folder. To convert a file into WPDOS, Microsoft Word, or any other supported format, drop the file onto the appropriately-named droplet and drag the resulting file to the desktop or your 'Unix' folder. Use these droplets before transferring files to your OS X/macOS system.

The 'Shortcut to OS X/macOS folder' and the 'Unix' icon both open a window that shows the files in your OS X/macOS 'Documents' folder. In other words, if your OS X/macOS username is 'Roscoe', the Unix icon in the Appliance is the same as the 'Documents' folder inside your 'Roscoe' folder in OS X/macOS. Drag documents to and from the Unix window to move them between OS X/macOS and the Appliance. The 'Shortcut to OS X/macOS folder' shortcut is on the desktop only in case you forget what the 'Unix' icon does! (You can change the location in OS X/macOS of your 'Unix' folder by holding down the Option key when launching the WPMacApp.)

The 'File Transfer' folder is merely a convenience. It reminds you that you should not try to copy a file from the 'Unix' folder (i.e., by default, your OS X/macOS Documents folder) directly to the WPMacApp desktop, because the file will not be moved to the WPMacApp emulated disk. Instead, copy the file from the 'Unix' folder to the File Transfer folder, and move it from there to anywhere on the WPMacApp disk.

A shortcut opens the 'Read Me First.pdf' file, and you must read at least the first page of this file!

The 'WP Documents' folder opens a convenient folder for storing your documents.

Printing options:The default desktop printer 'Print or Make PDF in OS X' normally prints to the default OS X/macOS printer. You can change this behavior so that you will be prompted (every time you print) to choose whether to print the file or create a PDF from it in OS X/macOS. To change this option, hold down the Option key when launching the WPMacApp, and when the Options menu appears, choose the prompting option and follow the prompts.

Other desktop printers in this system include 'Select Printer in OS X' (if you use this desktop printer, you will be prompted to choose an OS X/macOS printer every time you print) and 'Write PDF to OS X Desktop' (which creates a PDF on the OS X/macOS desktop with an arbitrary name based on the current date and time). If you want to create a PDF from WordPerfect, use one of the PDF macros on the WPMac Tools menu; these macros will create a PDF with the same name as the WP document. The 'PDFWriter' desktop printer is an Adobe printer driver that creates a PDF in the WPMacApp itself.

How the WPMacApp differs from a real Mac:The SheepShaver emulator works more or less like any real PowerPC Mac running an ancient version of the Mac OS. The only significant differences between this system and your old PowerPC Mac are these:

• Don't even try to use the Chooser to select a printer. Switch printers from the Print dialog in WordPerfect, or from the Desktop Printer utility in the Virtual Printers folder.
• Network or internet access from SheepShaver is very unreliable. I don't recommend that you use it.

How to get files into and out of the WPMacApp. You may open a WP document file in the WPMacApp by double-clicking it in OS X/macOS or by dragging it to the WPMacApp icon. Alternatively, you can copy or move a file from your OS X/macOS system to the WPMacApp disk by performing the following steps:

• First, in OS X/macOS, drag the file into the Documents folder in your home (user) folder. Remember, if your user name is 'Roscoe', then the folder you should use is the folder named 'Documents' inside your 'Roscoe' folder.
• Next, in the WPMacApp, double-click on the 'Unix' icon (or the equivalent 'Shortcut to OS X/macOS' icon) on the WPMacApp desktop to open the 'Unix' folder; remember, the 'Unix' folder is the name used in the WPMacApp for the Documents folder in your OS X/macOS home (user) folder. (The Documents folder is the default location of the 'Unix' folder; you can use a different folder instead, by holding down the Option key when launching the WPMacApp.)
• In the window that displays the contents of the 'Unix' folder on the WPMacApp desktop, find the file that you want to open in the WPMacApp.
• Drag that file into a folder on the WPMacApp disk! Do not simply drag it to the WPMacApp Desktop! (The easiest way to do this is to drag the file into the folder named 'File Transfer' on the WPMacApp desktop; when you drag files from the 'Unix' folder to the 'File Transfer' folder, you are copying them to the WPMacApp disk.
• When you are finished with the file and want to move the file back to your OS X/macOS system (or when you want to move any other file from the WPMacApp to your OS X/macOS system), drag the file from the WPMacApp disk into the open 'Unix' window on the WPMacApp desktop.
• The file can now be found in the Documents folder in your home (user) folder in OS X/macOS.

Warning: Be safe by saving new and modified files to the WPMacApp Desktop (or to the 'File Transfer' folder), not directly to the 'Unix' folder. WordPerfect for the Mac can save files directly to the 'Unix' folder (which, as you remember, is actually a folder on your OS X/macOS system). However, not all programs included on the WPMacApp are able to save directly to the 'Unix' folder; for example, any file that you try to save from Apple's SimpleText (included in the WPMacApp) to the 'Unix' folder is immediately and irretrievably deleted, not saved. To avoid this problem, save new and modified files to the WPMacApp desktop (or the 'File Transfer' folder), and then drag the files from the WPMacApp desktop to the 'Unix' folder in order to transfer them to your OS X/macOS system.

A warning on 'Save As..' from WordPerfect for the Mac: Be certain to test any files that you create by using the File Save As.. option in WordPerfect. If your document is complex, the WordPerfect export filter may produce an empty file. The export filters that seem most reliable are 'Microsoft Word 6.0' and 'WP for PC 6,7,8.' (Avoid using any export option that looks like 'RTF - Rich Text Format' or 'WP for PC 5.1,5.2', both of which often create empty files.)

A warning about the Microsoft Word 6 format: If you convert your WPMac files to the Microsoft Word 6 format, the resulting files may not be usable in Microsoft Word for Windows. Recent versions of Word for Windows refuse to open such files because their file format is inherently insecure. If you save a file in Word 6 format from WPMac, open in it Word for the Mac or some other OS X/macOS program, and then save it again in the format of Word 97 or later, so that it can be read on current Windows systems.

If you need more disk space: If you run out of disk space on the WPMacApp disk image, use the SheepShaver Preferences dialog (accessible from the SheepShaver item in the OS X/macOS top-line menu) to create an additional disk for this system. Use the suggested folder, and select a suitable size. Completely close down SheepShaver, and restart it; you will be prompted to format the new disk. After it is created and formatted, use it to store files and programs that do not fit on the main disk, while you continue to use the main disk for the programs installed on it. Do not try to copy the existing Mac OS system to the new disk unless you are deeply familiar with the WPMacApp and its operations, because the copied system will require many subtle adjustments before it works correctly.

Troubleshooting:

• After performing some operations with the WPMacApp you may find that your OS X/macOS Documents folder includes an empty folder named 'Desktop Folder.' This folder does no harm to your system, and it takes up almost no space because it is almost certainly empty, but you may want to reduce clutter by removing it. To do so, merely open the folder to be sure that it is empty, and, if it is in fact empty, feel free to delete it.
• If the WPMacApp disk gets corrupted or otherwise unusable, delete the application file and empty the Trash. Then, double-click the ZIP file on the original disk image to extract the original version of the system.

Technical note: An HTML-formatted version of an older version of the Applescript at the heart of this application is available on a separate page.

The files included in this download (and their copyright status)

This download includes a variety of different software, with different copyright status, as follows:

• SheepShaver: free, open-source PowerPC emulation software originally written by Christian Bauer, later maintained by Gwenolé Beauchesne (who is no longer involved in its development), and included here in a modified version created for this site.
• The 'classic' Mac OS. This system was built by starting with System 7.5.5, the last version of the Macintosh operating system freely downloadable from Apple's web site, and was upgraded to a later version for the current version of this application.
• Corel WordPerfect 3.5e: this version was released as a free download by Corel.
• Earlier versions of WordPerfect: these earlier versions were never released for download by Corel, but the fact that Corel released the last and most powerful version suggests that Corel has no special interest in protecting earlier versions from free distribution.
• Mac OS ROM: a ROM 'image file' from an early PowerPC Macintosh; all Macintosh ROM files are copyrighted, but Apple posted later and more powerful versions of its ROM files on its freely-accessible download pages, so I assume that Apple has no special interest in protecting earlier and even more obsolete versions from distribution.
• Adobe Type Manager LE and Adobe Acrobat Reader: both were released as free downloads by Adobe.
• Miscellaneous control panels, printer drivers, utilities, and other software, all released by their authors for free use, or for free use by individual users, or apparently abandoned by their original authors and widely circulating on the Internet.

If either Apple or Corel wants me to remove any software from this site, they know where to find me. Steven Jobs quoted me by name in his keynote address to the World Wide Developers' Conference in 2008, and I am in constant communication with Apple's corporate communications department. I have been in continuous contact with Corel ever since that company acquired WordPerfect. Both companies know how to reach me, and both know that I will immediately agree to any request they may make in reference to their intellectual property.

Frequently-asked questions

Q. Why can't this system connect to the Internet, or to the rest of my network?
A. In fact this system can connect to the Internet, but SheepShaver cannot easily connect to any other machine on your network.

Q. I'm far too intelligent and independent-minded to do what other people tell me, and I resent your implication that I have to do exactly what you say. When I tried to print from WordPerfect, I chose a different folder from the one that appeared in the dialog box because I know what I want to do, and I don't want you to tell me. Of course, nothing printed, but this is entirely your fault for being so inflexible and controlling. Please fix your software so that it works the way I want it to work.
A. Please follow the instructions.

Q. What happened to the Chooser? It isn't there!
A. In this system, I have removed the Chooser from the Apple Menu because there is nothing you can choose from the Chooser. The 'Virtual Printers' are all variations on the Apple LaserWriter printer driver, which is the only driver that lets you print to your OS X printers or create PDF files through OS X. So the Chooser would be useless. If you insist on having the Chooser, you can find it in the System Folder, in the Apple Menu Items (Disabled) folder.

Q. I have an old Mac program called MacCheese that I use for making Stilton and Cheddar in my garage. Please tell me as soon as possible whether your system will run this program, and what I might have to do in order to make it work smoothly. I will be glad to send you a copy of MacCheese so that you can test it for me and tell me whether it will work, so that I don't have to waste my extremely valuable time by installing it, only to find that it doesn't work.
A. I have never heard of MacCheese, and I have no plans to test it. I understand, of course, that your time is far more valuable than mine is, and I understand why it makes to sense to you that I should waste my time testing a program that you want to use. However, you might want to consider the bold, revolutionary step of trying it for yourself.

Q. Sorry, but I just don't understand any of this. I see that you went to a lot of trouble to explain it extremely clearly, but I'm too lazy, impatient, and incompetent to read everything that you've written. Please send me an e-mail that tells me all the things that you're saying on this page, but a lot more clearly, and addressed to me personally, not just written for anyone. Meanwhile, I'll also send you a long list of questions, because I'm too impatient to find the answers that are already on this page.
A. Please read this page slowly and carefully.

Copy-and-paste or cut-and-paste between OS X/macOS and the WPMacApp

You can copy and paste plain text between OS X/macOS and the WPMacApp. If you are copying from the WPMacApp to OS X/macOS, follow these steps:

• Select text in the program that you are running in WPMacApp, and copy it to the clipboard by pressing Command-C or use Edit Copy.
• Click on the desktop of the WPMacApp - in other words, click on the desktop of the 'virtual' 1990s-era Macintosh. Do not omit this step!
• Move the cursor to your OS X/macOS application, and paste the copied text into your application by pressing Command-V or Edit Paste.

Follow a similar procedure to cut-and-paste instead of copy-and-paste from the WPMacApp to OS X/macOS. Use similar procedures to copy- or cut-and paste from OS X to the WPMacApp.

Technical note: When copying from OS X/macOS to the WPMacApp, it is not necessary to click on the WPMac Appliance desktop before pasting, but you should do so anyway, so that you will be less likely to forget that essential step when pasting to OS X/macOS.

Frequently-asked question:

Q. I tried this method and it didn't work at all! Why are you wasting my valuable time with a method that you obviously didn't bother to test? How can you repay me for the time and effort that I've wasted trying to follow your incompetent and ignorant instructions?
A. Please try the procedure again. This time, please remember to click on the desktop of the WPMacApp, exactly as it says in the instructions above. Again, please do not forget to click on the desktop of the WPMacApp after copying and before pasting.

How to open or convert WPMac files in other programs or formats

If you have WPMac files that you wish to open in other applications, the following list tells you which applications may be able to open your files. See also the list of standalone conversion programs at the end of this list. For information on specially-created applications for converting WPMac and WPDOS files into other formats, under OS X/macOS, see a separate page.

An automated WP-to-DOC conversion fearture: A feature on this system makes it possible to convert a WPMac file automatically to Microsoft Word's .DOC format. To use this system, you must first install in your OS X/macOS system the WPLO Converter for OS X, found on another page of this site. Then, in the WPMacApp, find the OSA Menu, which is a small script icon in the SheepShaver menubar at the top of the window. You will find on this menu 'Convert File in OS X'. Click on this menu item, choose a WP document from your WPMacApp disk, and then wait while the file is copied to your OS X/macOS Documents folder and then converted to .DOC format by the WPLO Converter. The resulting .DOC file will be in the Documents folder together with the original WP document.

Files created by WordPerfect for the Mac 3.5e (3.5 Enhanced):

• If you want to exchange WPMac 3.5e files with WordPerfect for Windows or DOS, you are more likely to have success if you save the files from WPMac 3.5e in a 'WP for PC' format.
• Files in WPMac 3.5e format can be opened in WordPerfect for the Mac 3.5e (3.5 Enhanced) but not any earlier version, and not in WordPerfect for the Mac 3.5.0 through 3.5.4.
• Files in WPMac 3.5e format that have only simple formatting will probably open in WordPerfect for Windows or in WordPerfect for DOS 6.x (but not 5.x).
• Files in WPMac 3.5e format with complex formatting will not open in any version of WordPerfect for Windows or WordPerfect for DOS; these programs may crash when attempting to import the files, or they may report 'Unknown file format.' There is no easy way to predict whether any individual file will or will not open in these programs.
• Files in WPMac 3.5e format may be opened in LibreOffice and programs that use the same import filters (OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.), but files with complex formatting will probably open with serious errors in formatting; graphics features may be ignored.
• Password-protected WPMac 3.5e (3.5 Enhanced) files can be opened only in WordPerfect for the Mac 3.5 Enhanced, not in any other program.

Files created by WordPerfect for the Mac 3.0 through 3.5.4 (but not 3.5e), including files saved in 'WPMac 3 Compressed' format, which seems to be identical to the WPMac 2.x compressed format:

• These files can be opened in WordPerfect for the Mac 3.x or 3.5e (3.5 Enhanced).
• Simple files created by WPMac 3.0 through 3.5.4, that is, files without complex formatting, may be opened in WordPerfect for Windows or in WordPerfect for DOS 6.x (but not 5.x). They may also be opened in LibreOffice and programs that use the same import filters (OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.).
• Complex files created by WPMac 3.0 through 3.5.4 (files with tables, graphics, etc.) probably will not open in WordPerfect for Windows or DOS; these programs may crash when attempting to open the files.
• Complex files created by WPMac 3.0 through 3.5.4 may also be opened in LibreOffice and programs that use the same import filters (OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.), but probably with serious errors in formatting; graphics features may be ignored.
• Password-protected WPMac 3.0 through 3.5.4 files can be opened only in WordPerfect for the Mac 2.x, 3.x, and 3.5 Enhanced, not in any other program. When attempting to open such files, WordPerfect for DOS 6.x will prompt for the password, but will not accept even the correct password when entered.

Files created by WordPerfect for the Mac 2.x, including files saved in 'WPMac 2.x Compressed' format:

• These files can be opened in all versions of WordPerfect for the Mac starting with 2.0 (although some features of WPMac 2.1.x files may not be available in 2.0).
• Simple files created by WPMac 2.x, that is, files without complex formatting, may be opened in WordPerfect for Windows or in WordPerfect for DOS 6.x (but not 5.x). They may also be opened in LibreOffice and programs that use the same import filters (OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.).
• Complex files created by WPMac 2.x (files with tables, graphics, etc.) probably will not open in WordPerfect for Windows or DOS; these programs may crash when attempting to open the files.
• Complex files created by WPMac 2.x (files with tables, graphics, etc.) may also be opened in LibreOffice and programs that use the same import filters (OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.), but probably with serious errors in formatting; graphics features may be ignored.
• Files saved in the WPMac 2.x 'compressed' format will not open in WordPerfect for Windows, but may open in WordPerfect for DOS 6.x.
• Password-protected WPMac 2.x files can be opened only in WordPerfect for the Mac 2.x, 3.x, and 3.5 Enhanced, not in any other program. When attempting to open such files, WordPerfect for DOS 6.x will prompt for the password, but will not accept even the correct password when entered.

Files created by WordPerfect for the Mac 1.x:

• These files can be opened in all versions of WordPerfect for the Mac.
• Simple files created by WPMac 1.x, that is, files without complex formatting, may be opened in WordPerfect for Windows or in WordPerfect for DOS 6.x (both of which will recognize the files as WordPerfect 4.2 files). Such files may also be opened in OpenOffice.org and programs that use the same import filters (NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.).
• Complex files created by WPMac 1.x (files with tables, graphics, etc.) will not open in WordPerfect for Windows or WordPerfect for DOS, and probably not in LibreOffice or programs that use the same import filters (OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, AbiWord, etc.).
• Password-protected WPMac 1.0 files can be opened only in WordPerfect for the Mac 1.0, not in any other program.

• These files may be converted using the WPLO Converter for OS X, as described on another page.
• Files created by WPMac using the Japanese, Korean, etc. fonts installed by the Mac OS 'Language Kits' designed for System 7.1 through OS 8.6: The method described immediately below may also work but I cannot be certain.
• Files created by WPMac using the Japanese, Korean, etc. fonts installed by the Mac OS 'Language Kits' designed for OS 9.0.4 or 9.2.2: The best option is to use the WPLO Converter for OS X. Another method that may be promising to open these files in a PowerPC-based Mac running OS 10.3 or 10.4 with Classic installed, using WPMac running in Classic. Before you begin, find an OS 9 installation CD and install the appropriate Language Kit from it into Classic. Then open your files in WPMac. If all the characters are visible, select the contents of the file, copy the contents to the Clipboard, and then, under OS X (not Classic), open Microsoft Word 2001 for the Mac (or TextEdit) and paste the copied file into it. If your characters are visible, then save the Word file in standard Word 97-2003 .DOC format. The resulting file can be edited in any recent version of Word, Pages, LibreOffice, etc.

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Commercial conversion software:

For the Macintosh:

• MacLinkPlus Deluxe (commercial program, no longer available from its vendor Dataviz, and not usable under OS X 10.7 'Lion' or later) converts files from WPMac 2.0 through 3.5e formats to all standard word-processing formats. The results are reasonably good, although features such as line numbering are not supported; conversions to other Mac formats tend to be superior to conversions to Windows formats. Password-protected files cannot be opened. Older versions of MacLinkPlus (through version 11 at least) can open WPMac 1.x files. The last version of MacLinkPlus Deluxe was version 16. You may be able to find a copy on eBay.

Under Windows:

• Conversions Plus (the Windows version of MacLinkPlus Deluxe, described above; no longer available from its vendor Dataviz) converts files from WPMac 2.0 through 3.5e to all standard word-processing formats. The results are more or less acceptable, although features such as line numbering are not supported and embedded graphics either fail to convert or cause the program to crash. Password-protected files cannot be opened.
• Quick View Plus displays the main text of files in WPMac 1.02 through 3.5.4 (but not 3.5e), so that the text can be copied into other applications. No footnotes or graphics are supported. Password-protected files cannot be opened.

Links, documentation, and other useful material

GroupsIO hosts a WordPerfectMac user group, founded and moderated by John Rethorst. Anyone may join easily, and your e-mail address can be hidden from other members. The group's resources include around a thousand digests of the now-defunct WP-L mailing list; this index may be found in the group's Databases section. The group's Files section contain access to virtually every downloadable or web-based WPMac resource except for the large downloaders for WP itself.

Many additional files for WPMac may be found at the Info-Mac HyperArchive; read the file '00wp-abstracts.txt' for descriptions. See also the page of WPMac links at WPUniverse (but be warned that most of these links are defunct).

The only book about WordPerfect for the Macintosh that has been updated to cover version 3.5e (the one included in the WPMacApp) is John Rethorst's thorough and indispensable Teach Yourself WordPerfect Mac. The updated text is available as a PDF in the Files section of the Yahoo WPMac user group message board, which you can access by starting here (Yahoo login required).

Users who already know the basics of the program should study John Rethorst's unique guide to WordPerfect macros and related AppleScript scripting, available as 'Scripting Guide' in the Files section of the WordPerfectMac user group.

An Envoy document viewer for the Envoy-format files distributed with some WordPerfect, Corel, and Novell products may be found at a third-party download site.

Automatically set the zoom level and window size for WPMac

WordPerfect for the Macintosh was written for different screen sizes than those on today's computers, so many users prefer to change the zoom level for comfort. In WPMac, use the Set Default Zoom macro to change the zoom level.

If you also want to change the default window size, see the instructions on another page for suggestions about how to go about modifying the supplied OnDocumentOpen macro.

An automatic font replacement macro

If you created WordPerfect documents under older versions of the Macintosh operating system, you may have chosen obsolete Mac fonts like Geneva or New York as your default document fonts. These fonts can produce unattractively-formatted documents when printed under OS X, and you may want to replace them with more modern fonts.

A macro that automatically replaces fonts when a document is opened was written by John Rethorst and Kevin McCoy. Download this Stuffit archive containing a WPMac document; extract the document and open it in WordPerfect. Follow the instructions in the document to install the macro.

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Non-Roman Scripts

If you have one or more of the 'Apple Language Kits,' you may use WordPerfect for the Mac to edit text with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or other non-Roman scripts. Use the 2.x versions of the Language Kits together with the version of the Mac OS supplied with the WPMacApp.

Other sites include further information on Chinese on older Macs and Japanese on older Macs, and a web search will lead to further information.

To convert WPMac files with non-Roman scripts into modern word-processor formats, use the WPLO Converter, as described on another page.

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