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, execu-
              tive, 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 undelined 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.

       -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 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  over-
       ridden by the -w option).

       Antiword   uses   the  environment  variables  ``LC_ALL'',
       ``LC_CTYPE'' and ``LANG'' (in that order) to get the  cur-
       rent  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 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.
       Adobe,  PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems
       Incorporated.
       Microsoft is a  registered  trademark  and  Windows  is  a
       trademark of Microsoft Corporation.



Antiword 0.36              Oct 13, 2004               ANTIWORD(1)
