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  to  read and store settings instead of the default
30              XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile.
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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
46                            compression)
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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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

72       HOME   Defines the user's home directory.
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74       XDG_CONFIG_HOME
75              Defines the base directory relative to which user specific  con‐
76              figuration  files  should be stored. (See the XDG Base Directory
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FILES

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

85       To convert the document example.abw to RTF:
86           abiword --to=rtf example.abw
87       The resulting file will be named example.rtf.
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89       To print a document:
90           abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp
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REPORTING BUGS

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

97       enchant(1)
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HISTORY

100       AbiWord was started in 1998 by AbiSource Inc.,  a  company  founded  by
101       SourceGear  corporation.  The  initial  plan was to build a free office
102       suite named AbiSuite, encompassing  word  processing,  spreadsheet  and
103       presentation  applications.  As  they didn't have a usable product when
104       their venture capital was up, the code already developed  (namely  Abi‐
105       Word) was made open source.  AbiWord development was subsequently taken
106       over by volunteers and is driven by the community to date.
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110AbiWord 2.9                       2012-04-26                        ABIWORD(1)
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