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It's been a long road to the replacement for NisusWriter Classic, and it seems there is some way to go yet. The first experience of opening a NisusWriter Classic document:

• On opening it reports a font is missing. Nice that it worked that out, but why keep the name of the font to itself? How about telling the user?
  
  The page margins of the original are ignored, there goes the pagination...
  
  For every paragraph style in the orignal - the ones with named rulers - NWP creates two styles, and applies the first (styling details) to the paragraph in NWP, omitting the details from the second (layout from the ruler) - so now line spacing for example goes the way of pagination...
  
  And the text with Style:Format:Invisible - well its visible in NWP.

I used NisusWriter Classic for years, I have a lot of files, will I ever be able to open them without restorting to a PowerMac (PPC) and Classic? Or is supporting NWC not a priority?

Over a year since I last tried NisusWriter Pro and a new version is out. While nobody from Nisus followed up the last post, I do find:

rmark wrote:Reiner is correct. And we do a very good job of maintaining the formatting, if I don't say so myself.

over on the Classic forum so maybe things have improved... So let's open a Classic document from 2003:

• The margins are still ignored.
• Each style in the document is imported as "style" and "style 1" - the latter seems to be closest to the original, the text appears to be formatted according to it, but NWP says the former is the one applied.
• "Closest" above means that inter-paragraph and inter-line spacing are both wrong.

So sadly it looks like the one company best positioned to open NisusWriter Classic documents with any degree of fidelity is still not doing so

Would Nisus Software agree to at least make the NisusWriter Classic file format publicly available?

(Of course if Nisus would like the file I used for the test, would like me to test any fixes, etc., just email.)