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ABIWORD(1)		     General Commands Manual		      ABIWORD(1)

NAME
     abiword -- flexible cross-platform word processor

SYNOPSIS
     abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]

DESCRIPTION
     AbiWord  is a full-featured, efficient word processing application suitable
     for a wide range of word processing tasks, and extensible with a variety of
     plugins. It integrates with enchant(1) to provide spell-checking.

OPTIONS
     -g WxH[+X+Y], --geometry=WxH[+X+Y]
	    Specifies window geometry at startup.

     -E PLUGIN, --plugin=PLUGIN
	    Execute the specified plugin instead of the main application.

     --import-extension=EXT
	    Import the given file as if it had extension EXT,  overriding  auto-
	    matic file type detection.

     -u PROFILE, --userprofile=PROFILE
	    Use  PROFILE  to  read  and  store	settings  instead of the default
	    XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile.

     -t DEST, --to=DEST
	    Convert the given file to another  format,	writing  the  result  to
	    DEST.  The format of DEST is determined by its extension.
	    See also --to=FORMAT and --to-name.

     -t FORMAT, --to=FORMAT
	    Convert  the  given  files(s) to the given format. Unless explicitly
	    specified with --to-name, the original filename will be used (with a
	    different extension, if necessary). See also EXAMPLES.

	    The more popular values for FORMAT include:
		   abw	  Abiword XML format (zabw for	gzip,  bzabw  for  bzip2
			  compression)
		   dbk	  DocBook XML
		   doc	  Microsoft Word binary format
		   docx   Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions)
		   html   Hypertext Markup Language
		   kwd	  KWord
		   odt	  OpenDocument Text
		   pdf	  Portable Document Format
		   rtf	  Rich Text Format
		   sxw	  OpenOffice.org Writer 1.0
		   txt	  Plain text

     --to-name=DEST
	    Only  useful  in  conjunction with --to=FORMAT.  Specifies where the
	    converted document shall be written to.

     --verbose=LEVEL
	    Set level of verbosity [0-2], 2 giving the most detailed output.

     -h, --help
	    Display a short help message and exit.

     --version
	    Report the version of AbiWord.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     HOME   Defines the user's home directory.

     XDG_CONFIG_HOME
	    Defines the base directory relative to which user specific	configu-
	    ration  files should be stored. (See the XDG Base Directory Specifi-
	    cation for details.)

FILES
     XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile
	    The default user profile file. (If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set
	    or empty, a default equal to HOME/.config will be used.)

EXAMPLES
     To convert the document example.abw to RTF:
	 abiword --to=rtf example.abw
     The resulting file will be named example.rtf.

     To print a document:
	 abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp

REPORTING BUGS
     Report    bugs    to    the    Bugzilla	bug    tracking    system     at
     <http://bugzilla.abisource.com>.

SEE ALSO
     enchant(1)

HISTORY
     AbiWord  was  started  in	1998  by  AbiSource  Inc.,  a company founded by
     SourceGear corporation. The initial plan was to build a free  office  suite
     named  AbiSuite, encompassing word processing, spreadsheet and presentation
     applications. As they didn't have a usable product when their venture capi-
     tal was up, the code already  developed  (namely  AbiWord)  was  made  open
     source.   AbiWord development was subsequently taken over by volunteers and
     is driven by the community to date.

AbiWord 2.9			   2012-04-26			      ABIWORD(1)

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