1ABIWORD(1) General Commands Manual ABIWORD(1)
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6 abiword — flexible cross-platform word processor
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9 abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]
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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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18 -g WxH[+X+Y], --geometry=WxH[+X+Y]
19 Specifies window geometry at startup.
20 -E PLUGIN, --plugin=PLUGIN
22 Execute the specified plugin instead of the main application.
23 --import-extension=EXT
25 Import the given file as if it had extension EXT, overriding
26 automatic file type detection.
27 -u PROFILE, --userprofile=PROFILE
29 Use PROFILE to read and store settings instead of the default
30 XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile.
31 -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.
36 -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‐
41 PLES.
42 The more popular values for FORMAT include:
44 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
57 --to-name=DEST
59 Only useful in conjunction with --to=FORMAT. Specifies where
60 the converted document shall be written to.
61 --verbose=LEVEL
63 Set level of verbosity [0-2], 2 giving the most detailed output.
64 -h, --help
66 Display a short help message and exit.
67 --version
69 Report the version of AbiWord.
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72 HOME Defines the user's home directory.
73 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
77 Specification for details.)
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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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85 To convert the document example.abw to RTF:
86 abiword --to=rtf example.abw
87 The resulting file will be named example.rtf.
88 To print a document:
90 abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp
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93 Report bugs to the Bugzilla bug tracking system at
94 <http://bugzilla.abisource.com>.
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97 enchant(1)
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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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