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kantiword

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

NAME

       kantiword - installs desktop icon for d'n'd function of antiword

SYNOPSIS

       kantiword [ papersize  wordfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       kantiword is a helper script for antiword(1), an application that displays the text and the images of Microsoft Word documents.
       Kantiword can be used to install an icon on your destop (into ~/Desktop dir), if it will be invoked with less that 2 parameters.
       If  it  is  called  with  2 parameters, it will convert a copy of wordfile to PDF and display it. Plain text output will be used, if no PDF
       viewer like kpdf, xpdf or gv is installed.

PARAMETER

       papersize
	      paper size ('a4' or 'letter') of given wordfile.

       wordfile
	      Microsoft Word document to display.

SEE ALSO

       antiword(1).

AUTHOR

       kantiword was written by Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl> and adapted by Erik Schanze <eriks@debian.org>.

       This manual page was written by Erik Schanze <eriks@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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							   Jun 03, 2009 						      KANTIWORD(1)