antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents

antiword [ options ] wordfiles

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.

-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 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 specified size: 10x14, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, executive, 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 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.

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.

Antiword uses the environment variable ``ANTIWORDHOME'' as the first directory to look for its files. Antiword uses the environment variable ``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 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.

The most recent released version of Antiword is always available from:

http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html

or try

http://antiword.cjb.net/

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.

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

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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