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ANTIWORD(1)		       Linux User's Manual		     ANTIWORD(1)

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 Mi-
     crosoft Word documents.
     A wordfile named - stands for a Word document read from the standard input.
     Only documents made by MS Word version 2 and version 6 or	later  are  sup-
     ported.

OPTIONS
     -a papersize
	    Output  in Adobe PDF form. Printable on paper of the specified size:
	    10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio,  legal,  letter,  note,
	    quarto, statement or tabloid.

     -f     Output  in formatted text form. That means that bold text is printed
	    like *bold*, italics like /italics/ and underlined text  as  _under-
	    lined_.

     -h     Give a help message.

     -i image level
	    The image level determines how images will be shown.

	    0:
	       Use non-standard extensions 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 Ghostscript 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 mapping file depends on the locale.

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

     -r     Include text removed by the revisioning system.

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

     -t     Output in text form. (default)

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

     -x document type definition
	    Output  in	XML form. Currently the only document type definition is
	    db (for DocBook).

     -L     In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.

FILES
     Mapping files like 8859-1.txt
	    Antiword looks for its mapping files in three  directories,  in  the
	    order given:
	    (1) The directory specified by $ANTIWORDHOME
	    (2) The directory specified by $HOME/.antiword
	    (3) Directory /usr/share/antiword

     The fontnames file
	    Antiword  will look for its fontname file in the same directories as
	    used for the mapping files.
	    The fontnames file contains the translation table  from  font  names
	    used by MS Word to font names used by PostScript.

     NOTE:
	    Antiword cannot tell the difference between a file that does not ex-
	    ist and a file that cannot be opened for reading.

ENVIRONMENT
     Antiword uses the environment variable ``ANTIWORDHOME'' as the first direc-
     tory to look for its files. Antiword uses the environment variable ``HOME''
     to  find  the user's home directory. When in text mode it uses the variable
     ``COLUMNS'' to set the width of the output (unless overridden by the -w op-
     tion).

     Antiword  uses  the  environment  variables  ``LC_ALL'',  ``LC_CTYPE''  and
     ``LANG''  (in  that order) to get the current locale and uses this informa-
     tion to select the default mapping file.

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.   PostScript  output  is only available in ISO 8859-1 and ISO
     8859-2.

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> and
     Sindi Keesan <keesan@cyberspace.org>
     contributed 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 Soft-
     ware 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  FIT-
     NESS  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.
     Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
     Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft
     Corporation.

Antiword 0.37			  Oct 29, 2005			     ANTIWORD(1)

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