ANTIWORD(1)							Linux User's Manual						       ANTIWORD(1)

NAME

       antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents

SYNOPSIS

       antiword [ options ] wordfiles

DESCRIPTION

       Antiword is an application that displays the text and the images of Microsoft Word documents.
       A wordfile named - stands for a Word document read from the standard input.
       Only documents made by MS Word version 2 and version 6 or later are supported.

OPTIONS

       -a papersize
	      Output  in  Adobe  PDF  form.  Printable on paper of the specified size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, folio, legal, letter,
	      note, quarto, statement or tabloid.

       -f     Output in formatted text form. That means that bold text is printed like *bold*, italics	like  /italics/  and  underlined  text	as
	      _underlined_.

       -h     Give a help message.

       -i image level
	      The image level determines how images will be shown.

	      0: Use  non-standard extensions 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 Ghostscript 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 mapping file depends on the locale.

       -p papersize
	      Output in PostScript form. Printable on paper of the specified size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5,  executive,  folio,  legal,  letter,
	      note, quarto, statement or tabloid.

       -r     Include text removed by the revisioning system.

       -s     Include text with the so-called "hidden text" attribute.

       -t     Output in text form. (default)

       -w width
	      In  text	mode  this is the line width in characters. A value of zero puts an entire paragraph on a line, useful when the text is to
	      used as input for another wordprocessor. This value is ignored in PostScript mode.

       -x document type definition
	      Output in XML form. Currently the only document type definition is db (for DocBook).

       -L     In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.

FILES

       Mapping files like 8859-1.txt
	      Antiword looks for its mapping files in three directories, in the order given:
	      (1) The directory specified by $ANTIWORDHOME
	      (2) The directory specified by $HOME/.antiword
	      (3) Directory /usr/share/antiword

       The fontnames file
	      Antiword will look for its fontname file in the same directories as used for the mapping files.
	      The fontnames file contains the translation table from font names used by MS Word to font names used by PostScript.

       NOTE:
	      Antiword cannot tell the difference between a file that does not exist and a file that cannot be opened for reading.

ENVIRONMENT

       Antiword uses the environment variable ``ANTIWORDHOME'' as the first directory to look for its files. Antiword uses the	environment  vari-
       able  ``HOME'' to find the user's home directory. When in text mode it uses the variable ``COLUMNS'' to set the width of the output (unless
       overridden by the -w option).

       Antiword uses the environment variables ``LC_ALL'', ``LC_CTYPE'' and ``LANG'' (in that order) to get  the  current  locale  and	uses  this
       information to select the default mapping file.

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.  PostScript output is only available in ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-2.

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> and
       Sindi Keesan <keesan@cyberspace.org>
       contributed 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 MERCHANTABIL-
       ITY 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.
       Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
       Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Antiword 0.37							   Oct 29, 2005 						       ANTIWORD(1)