ANTIWORD(1) Linux Users Manual ANTIWORD(1)NAMEantiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents
SYNOPSISantiword [ options ] wordfiles
DESCRIPTION
Antiword is an application that displays the text and the
images of Microsoft Word documents. Only documents made
by MS Word version 6 or later are supported.
OPTIONS-h Give a help message.
-i image level
The image level decides how images will be shown.
0: Use non-standard extentions from Ghostscript.
This output may not print on any PostScript
printer, but is useful in case no hard-copy is
needed. It is also useful when Gostscript is
used as a filter to print a PostScript file to a
non-PostScript printer.
1: Show no images.
2: PostScript level 2 compatible. (default)
3: PostScript level 3 compatible. (EXPERIMENTAL,
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images are not
printed correctly)
-m mapping file
This file is used to map Unicode characters to your
local character set. The default is UTF-8.txt in
locales that support UTF-8 and 8859-1.txt in other
locales.
-p papersize
Output in PostScript form. Printable on paper of
the given size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, execu
tive, folio, legal, letter, note, quarto, statement
or tabloid.
-s Include text with the so called "hidden text"
attribute.
-t Output in text form. (default)
-w width
In text mode this is the width of a line in charac
ters. A value of zero puts an entire paragraph on a
line, useful when the text is to used as input for
an other wordprocessor. This value is ignored in
PostScript mode.
-L In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.
-X PostScript encoding
1: In Postscript mode: encode in the ISO-8859-1
character set. (This option implies -m
8859-1.txt) (default)
2: In Postscript mode: encode in the ISO-8859-2
character set. (This option implies -m
8859-2.txt) (EXPERIMENTAL and UNTESTED)
FILES
$/opt/antiword/share/8859-1.txt, $HOME/.anti
word/8859-1.txt and friends:
Global and local mapping files (see -m option)
/opt/antiword/share/fontnames, $HOME/.antiword/fontnames:
Global and local versions of the fontnames file.
This file contains the translation table from font
names as used by MS Word to fontnames used by
PostScript.
NOTE:
A global file will be used when the local one is
not available.
ENVIRONMENT
Antiword uses the environment variable ``HOME'' to find
the home directory of the user. When in text mode it uses
the variable ``COLUMNS'' to set the width of the output
(unless overridden by the -w option).
BUGS
Antiword is far from complete. Many features are still
missing. Many images are not shown yet. Some of the images
that are shown, are shown in the wrong place.
WEB SITES
The most recent released version of Antiword is always
available from:
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html
or try
http://antiword.cjb.net/
AUTHOR
Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl>
or try <comments@antiword.cjb.net>
R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> contibuted to this manual
page.
LICENSE
Antiword is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a
trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Antiword 0.32 Oct 04, 2001 ANTIWORD(1)
