1ABIWORD(1)                  General Commands Manual                 ABIWORD(1)
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NAME

6       abiword — flexible cross-platform word processor
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SYNOPSIS

9       abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application suit‐
13       able for a wide range of word processing tasks, and extensible  with  a
14       variety  of  plugins.  It  integrates with enchant(1) to provide spell-
15       checking.
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OPTIONS

18       -g WxH[+X+Y], --geometry=WxH[+X+Y]
19              Specifies window geometry at startup.
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21       -E PLUGIN, --plugin=PLUGIN
22              Execute the specified plugin instead of the main application.
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24       --import-extension=EXT
25              Import the given file as if it  had  extension  EXT,  overriding
26              automatic file type detection.
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28       -u PROFILE, --userprofile=PROFILE
29              Use  PROFILE  instead of the default ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile
30              to read and store settings.
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32       -t DEST, --to=DEST
33              Convert the given file to another format, writing the result  to
34              DEST.  The format of DEST is determined by its extension.
35              See also --to=FORMAT and --to-name.
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37       -t FORMAT, --to=FORMAT
38              Convert  the  given files(s) to the given format. Unless explic‐
39              itly specified with --to-name, the  original  filename  will  be
40              used  (with a different extension, if necessary). See also EXAM‐
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43              The more popular values for FORMAT include:
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45                     abw    Abiword XML format (zabw for gzip, bzabw for bzip2
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47                     dbk    DocBook XML
48                     doc    Microsoft Word binary format
49                     docx   Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions)
50                     html   Hypertext Markup Language
51                     kwd    KWord
52                     odt    OpenDocument Text
53                     pdf    Portable Document Format
54                     rtf    Rich Text Format
55                     sxw    OpenOffice.org Writer 1.0
56                     txt    Plain text
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58       --to-name=DEST
59              Only  useful  in  conjunction with --to=FORMAT.  Specifies where
60              the converted document shall be written to.
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62       --verbose=LEVEL
63              Set level of verbosity [0-2], 2 giving the most detailed output.
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65       -h, --help
66              Display a short help message and exit.
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68       --version
69              Report the version of AbiWord.
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EXAMPLES

72       To convert the document example.abw to RTF:
73           abiword --to=rtf example.abw
74       The resulting file will be named example.rtf.
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76       To print a document:
77           abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp
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REPORTING BUGS

80       Report   bugs   to   the    Bugzilla    bug    tracking    system    at
81       <http://bugzilla.abisource.com>.
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SEE ALSO

84       enchant(1)
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HISTORY

87       AbiWord  was  started  in  1998 by AbiSource Inc., a company founded by
88       SourceGear corporation. The initial plan was to  build  a  free  office
89       suite  named  AbiSuite,  encompassing  word processing, spreadsheet and
90       presentation applications. As they didn’t have a  usable  product  when
91       their  venture  capital was up, the code already developed (namely Abi‐
92       Word) was made open source.  AbiWord development was subsequently taken
93       over by volunteers and is driven by the community to date.
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97AbiWord 2.8                       2009-12-11                        ABIWORD(1)
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