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 the binary format documents made by MS Word version 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000 and 2003 are supported.  Newer
       Word  versions  default to using a completely different format consisting of XML files in a ZIP container
       (usually with a ".docx" file extension) which antiword doesn't support.   It  also  doesn't  support  the
       "flat" XML format which MS Word 2003 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 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 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.

AUTHOR

       Adri van Os

       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 0.37                                     Oct 29, 2005                                       ANTIWORD(1)