1 .TH ANTIWORD 1 "Oct 29, 2005" "Antiword 0.37" "Linux User's Manual"
3 antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents
12 is an application that displays the text and the images of Microsoft Word
15 A wordfile named - stands for a Word document read from the standard input.
17 Only documents made by MS Word version 2 and version 6 or later are supported.
21 Output in Adobe PDF form. Printable on paper of the specified size: 10x14,
22 a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, letter, note, quarto, statement
26 Output in formatted text form. That means that bold text is printed like
27 *bold*, italics like /italics/ and underlined text as _underlined_.
32 .BI "\-i " "image level"
33 The image level determines how images will be shown.
37 Use non-standard extensions from Ghostscript. This output may not print on
38 any PostScript printer, but is useful in case no hard copy is needed. It is
39 also useful when Ghostscript is used as a filter to print a PostScript file to
40 a non-PostScript printer.
46 PostScript level 2 compatible. (default)
49 PostScript level 3 compatible. (EXPERIMENTAL, Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
50 images are not printed correctly)
53 .BI "\-m " "mapping file"
54 This file is used to map Unicode characters to your local character set.
55 The default mapping file depends on the locale.
58 Output in PostScript form. Printable on paper of the specified size: 10x14,
59 a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, letter, note, quarto, statement
63 Include text removed by the revisioning system.
66 Include text with the so-called "hidden text" attribute.
69 Output in text form. (default)
72 In text mode this is the line width in characters. A value of zero puts an
73 entire paragraph on a line, useful when the text is to used as input for
74 another wordprocessor. This value is ignored in PostScript mode.
76 .BI "\-x " "document type definition"
77 Output in XML form. Currently the only document type definition is db
81 In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.
85 Mapping files like 8859-1.txt
87 Antiword looks for its mapping files in three directories, in the order given:
89 (1) The directory specified by $ANTIWORDHOME
91 (2) The directory specified by $HOME/.antiword
93 (3) Directory /usr/share/antiword
97 Antiword will look for its fontname file in the same directories as used for the
100 The fontnames file contains the translation table from font names used by MS
101 Word to font names used by PostScript.
105 Antiword cannot tell the difference between a file that does not exist and a
106 file that cannot be opened for reading.
108 Antiword uses the environment variable ``ANTIWORDHOME'' as the first directory
109 to look for its files. Antiword uses the environment variable ``HOME'' to find
110 the user's home directory. When in text mode it uses the variable ``COLUMNS''
111 to set the width of the output (unless overridden by the -w option).
113 Antiword uses the environment variables ``LC_ALL'', ``LC_CTYPE'' and ``LANG''
114 (in that order) to get the current locale and uses this information to
115 select the default mapping file.
117 Antiword is far from complete. Many features are still missing. Many images are
118 not shown yet. Some of the images that are shown, are shown in the wrong place.
119 PostScript output is only available in ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-2.
121 The most recent released version of Antiword is always available from:
123 http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html
127 http://antiword.cjb.net/
129 Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl>
131 or try <comments@antiword.cjb.net>
133 R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> and
135 Sindi Keesan <keesan@cyberspace.org>
137 contributed to this manual page.
139 Antiword is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
140 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
141 Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
144 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT
145 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
146 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
149 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
150 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
151 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
153 Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
155 Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
157 Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft