Importing WordPerfect X3-file to Affinity Publisher with cross references

[elbchaussee]

A file with a theological subject has been written in WordPerfect X3 (readable by me with WordPerfect X5). It has 300 pages and 1.200 footnotes with cross references.

I can simply import the file into APub with copy and paste; even the Hebrew and Greek letters are there.

But all the cross references are vanished ...

Is there a way to import the file with the cross references which should be able to update themselves afterwards?

Thanks in advance.

[MikeTO]

You will have to rebuild all of your cross-references in Publisher.

Publisher doesn't support importing cross-references from word processing files. When you copy and paste from WordPerfect, it's likely copying in RTF which Publisher supports. But it wouldn't matter if your files were converted to Microsoft Word which can be placed directly into Publisher - the cross-references will still be converted to static text.

If your cross-references in WordPerfect use consistent text or formatting (e.g., "on page XXX") then you could find them in Publisher with the Find panel to help you rebuild them.

[elbchaussee]

Thanks, MikeTO.

At the moment the author and me will go with the following solution:

Copy and paste the WordPerfect file into Affinity Publisher.

Make a proper layout.

Make a pdf-file.

Send the file to the author.

Then the author will make the same page breaks in WordPerfect as in the pdf-file, update the cross references, make a pdf-file from the WordPerfect file and send me the pdf-file with the updated cross references.

Afterwards I have to insert the new cross references manually in the Affinity Publisher file. [sigh] But they are correct then.