1ANTIWORD(1) Linux User's Manual ANTIWORD(1)
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6 antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents
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9 antiword [ options ] wordfiles
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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 documents made by MS Word version 2 and version 6 or later are
17 supported.
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20 -a papersize
21 Output in Adobe PDF form. Printable on paper of the specified
22 size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, let‐
23 ter, note, quarto, statement or tabloid.
24 -f Output in formatted text form. That means that bold text is
26 printed like *bold*, italics like /italics/ and underlined text
27 as _underlined_.
28 -h Give a help message.
30 -i image level
32 The image level determines how images will be shown.
33 0: Use non-standard extensions from Ghostscript. This output may
35 not print on any PostScript printer, but is useful in case no
36 hard copy is needed. It is also useful when Ghostscript is
37 used as a filter to print a PostScript file to a non-Post‐
38 Script printer.
39 1: Show no images.
41 2: PostScript level 2 compatible. (default)
43 3: PostScript level 3 compatible. (EXPERIMENTAL, Portable Net‐
45 work Graphics (PNG) images are not printed correctly)
46 -m mapping file
48 This file is used to map Unicode characters to your local char‐
49 acter set. The default mapping file depends on the locale.
50 -p papersize
52 Output in PostScript form. Printable on paper of the specified
53 size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, let‐
54 ter, note, quarto, statement or tabloid.
55 -r Include text removed by the revisioning system.
57 -s Include text with the so-called "hidden text" attribute.
59 -t Output in text form. (default)
61 -w width
63 In text mode this is the line width in characters. A value of
64 zero puts an entire paragraph on a line, useful when the text is
65 to used as input for another wordprocessor. This value is
66 ignored in PostScript mode.
67 -x document type definition
69 Output in XML form. Currently the only document type definition
70 is db (for DocBook).
71 -L In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.
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75 Mapping files like 8859-1.txt
76 Antiword looks for its mapping files in three directories, in
77 the order given:
78 (1) The directory specified by $ANTIWORDHOME
79 (2) The directory specified by $HOME/.antiword
80 (3) Directory /usr/share/antiword
81 The fontnames file
83 Antiword will look for its fontname file in the same directories
84 as used for the mapping files.
85 The fontnames file contains the translation table from font
86 names used by MS Word to font names used by PostScript.
87 NOTE:
89 Antiword cannot tell the difference between a file that does not
90 exist and a file that cannot be opened for reading.
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93 Antiword uses the environment variable ``ANTIWORDHOME'' as the first
94 directory to look for its files. Antiword uses the environment variable
95 ``HOME'' to find the user's home directory. When in text mode it uses
96 the variable ``COLUMNS'' to set the width of the output (unless over‐
97 ridden by the -w option).
98 Antiword uses the environment variables ``LC_ALL'', ``LC_CTYPE'' and
100 ``LANG'' (in that order) to get the current locale and uses this infor‐
101 mation to select the default mapping file.
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104 Antiword is far from complete. Many features are still missing. Many
105 images are not shown yet. Some of the images that are shown, are shown
106 in the wrong place. PostScript output is only available in ISO 8859-1
107 and ISO 8859-2.
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110 The most recent released version of Antiword is always available from:
111 http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html
112 or try
113 http://antiword.cjb.net/
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116 Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl>
117 or try <comments@antiword.cjb.net>
118 R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> and
120 Sindi Keesan <keesan@cyberspace.org>
121 contributed to this manual page.
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124 Antiword is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
125 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
126 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
127 option) any later version.
128 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but
130 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
131 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
132 Public License for more details.
133 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
135 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
136 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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139 Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
140 Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
141 Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Mi‐
142 crosoft Corporation.
143Antiword 0.37 Oct 29, 2005 ANTIWORD(1)