ANTIWORD

Section: Linux User\'s Manual (1)
Updated: Oct 04, 2001
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NAME

antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents

SYNOPSIS

antiword [ options ] wordfiles

DESCRIPTION

Antiword is an application that displays the text and the images of Microsoft Word documents. Only documents made by MS Word version 6 or later are supported.

OPTIONS

-h

Give a help message.

-i image level

The image level decides how images will be shown.

0:: Use non-standard extentions from Ghostscript. This output may not print on any PostScript printer, but is useful in case no hard-copy is needed. It is also useful when Gostscript is used as a filter to print a PostScript file to a non-PostScript printer.
1:: Show no images.
2:: PostScript level 2 compatible. (default)
3:: PostScript level 3 compatible. (EXPERIMENTAL, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images are not printed correctly)

-m mapping file

This file is used to map Unicode characters to your local character set. The default is UTF-8.txt in locales that support UTF-8 and 8859-1.txt in other locales.

-p papersize

Output in PostScript form. Printable on paper of the given size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, letter, note, quarto, statement or tabloid.

-s

Include text with the so called "hidden text" attribute.

-t

Output in text form. (default)

-w width

In text mode this is the width of a line in characters. A value of zero puts an entire paragraph on a line, useful when the text is to used as input for an other wordprocessor. This value is ignored in PostScript mode.

-L

In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.

-X PostScript encoding

1:: In Postscript mode: encode in the ISO-8859-1 character set. (This option implies -m 8859-1.txt) (default)
2:: In Postscript mode: encode in the ISO-8859-2 character set. (This option implies -m 8859-2.txt) (EXPERIMENTAL and UNTESTED)

FILES

$/opt/antiword/share/8859-1.txt, $HOME/.antiword/8859-1.txt and friends:: Global and local mapping files (see -m option)
/opt/antiword/share/fontnames, $HOME/.antiword/fontnames:: Global and local versions of the fontnames file. This file contains the translation table from font names as used by MS Word to fontnames used by PostScript.
NOTE:: A global file will be used when the local one is not available.

ENVIRONMENT

Antiword uses the environment variable ``HOME'' to find the home directory of the user. When in text mode it uses the variable ``COLUMNS'' to set the width of the output (unless overridden by the -w option).

BUGS

Antiword is far from complete. Many features are still missing. Many images are not shown yet. Some of the images that are shown, are shown in the wrong place.

WEB SITES

The most recent released version of Antiword is always available from:
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html
or try
http://antiword.cjb.net/

AUTHOR

Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl>
or try <comments@antiword.cjb.net>

R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> contibuted to this manual page.

LICENSE

Antiword is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

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