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

6       antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents
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SYNOPSIS

9       antiword [ options ] wordfiles
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DESCRIPTION

12       Antiword is an application that displays the text and the images of Mi‐
13       crosoft Word documents.
14       A wordfile named - stands for a Word document read  from  the  standard
15       input.
16       Only  the  binary format documents made by MS Word version 2, 6, 7, 97,
17       2000 and 2003 are supported.  Newer Word versions default  to  using  a
18       completely  different format consisting of XML files in a ZIP container
19       (usually with a ".docx" file extension) which antiword doesn't support.
20       It  also  doesn't support the "flat" XML format which MS Word 2003 sup‐
21       ported.
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OPTIONS

24       -a papersize
25              Output in Adobe PDF form. Printable on paper  of  the  specified
26              size:  10x14,  a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, let‐
27              ter, note, quarto, statement or tabloid.
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29       -f     Output in formatted text form. That  means  that  bold  text  is
30              printed  like *bold*, italics like /italics/ and underlined text
31              as _underlined_.
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33       -h     Give a help message.
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35       -i image level
36              The image level determines how images will be shown.
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38              0: Use non-standard extensions from Ghostscript. This output may
39                 not print on any PostScript printer, but is useful in case no
40                 hard copy is needed. It is also useful  when  Ghostscript  is
41                 used  as  a  filter to print a PostScript file to a non-Post‐
42                 Script printer.
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44              1: Show no images.
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46              2: PostScript level 2 compatible. (default)
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48              3: PostScript level 3 compatible. (EXPERIMENTAL,  Portable  Net‐
49                 work Graphics (PNG) images are not printed correctly)
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51       -m mapping file
52              This  file is used to map Unicode characters to your local char‐
53              acter set.  The default mapping file depends on the locale.
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55       -p papersize
56              Output in PostScript form. Printable on paper of  the  specified
57              size:  10x14,  a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, let‐
58              ter, note, quarto, statement or tabloid.
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60       -r     Include text removed by the revisioning system.
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62       -s     Include text with the so-called "hidden text" attribute.
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64       -t     Output in text form. (default)
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66       -w width
67              In text mode this is the line width in characters.  A  value  of
68              zero puts an entire paragraph on a line, useful when the text is
69              to used as  input  for  another  wordprocessor.  This  value  is
70              ignored in PostScript mode.
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72       -x document type definition
73              Output  in XML form. Currently the only document type definition
74              is db (for DocBook).
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76       -L     In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.
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FILES

79       Mapping files like 8859-1.txt
80              Antiword looks for its mapping files in  three  directories,  in
81              the order given:
82              (1) The directory specified by $ANTIWORDHOME
83              (2) The directory specified by $HOME/.antiword
84              (3) Directory /usr/share/antiword
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86       The fontnames file
87              Antiword will look for its fontname file in the same directories
88              as used for the mapping files.
89              The fontnames file contains  the  translation  table  from  font
90              names used by MS Word to font names used by PostScript.
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92       NOTE:
93              Antiword cannot tell the difference between a file that does not
94              exist and a file that cannot be opened for reading.
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ENVIRONMENT

97       Antiword uses the environment variable ``ANTIWORDHOME''  as  the  first
98       directory to look for its files. Antiword uses the environment variable
99       ``HOME'' to find the user's home directory. When in text mode  it  uses
100       the  variable  ``COLUMNS'' to set the width of the output (unless over‐
101       ridden by the -w option).
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103       Antiword uses the environment variables  ``LC_ALL'',  ``LC_CTYPE''  and
104       ``LANG'' (in that order) to get the current locale and uses this infor‐
105       mation to select the default mapping file.
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BUGS

108       Antiword is far from complete. Many features are  still  missing.  Many
109       images  are not shown yet. Some of the images that are shown, are shown
110       in the wrong place.  PostScript output is only available in ISO  8859-1
111       and ISO 8859-2.
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WEB SITES

114       The most recent released version of Antiword is always available from:
115       http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html
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AUTHOR

118       Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl>
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120       R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> and
121       Sindi Keesan <keesan@cyberspace.org>
122       contributed to this manual page.
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LICENSE

125       Antiword  is  free  software;  you can redistribute it and/or modify it
126       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the
127       Free  Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
128       option) any later version.
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130       This program is distributed in the hope that  it  will  be  useful  but
131       WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of MER‐
132       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the  GNU  General
133       Public License for more details.
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135       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
136       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
137       59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

140       Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
141       Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
142       Microsoft  is  a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Mi‐
143       crosoft Corporation.
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147Antiword 0.37                    Oct 29, 2005                      ANTIWORD(1)
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