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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.  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



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              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/.antiword/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.




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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.


































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