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1 ANTIWORD

 antiword - show the text and images of MS Word documents
 antiword is an application that displays the text and the images of 
 Microsoft Word documents.
 A wordfile named - stand for a Word document read from the standard
 input.  
 Only documents made by MS Word 2 and version 6 or later are supported.

 Usage: antiword [options] wordfile1 [wordfile2 ...]

2 OPTIONS
        

      [-t|-p papersize][-m mapping][-w #][-i #][-X #][-Ls]
                -t text output (default)
                -p <paper size name> PostScript output
                   like: a4, letter or legal
                -m <mapping> character mapping file
                -w <width> in characters of text output
                -i <level> image level (PostScript only)
                -X <encoding> character set (Postscript only)
                -L use landscape mode (PostScript only)
                -s Show hidden (by Word) text


3 -h
 -h Give a help message.
3 -i  
 -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)
3 -m  
 -m "mapping file"
 This file is used to map Unicode characters to your local single-byte
 characters set. The default is 8859-1.txt for Western European languages.
3 -p  
  -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.
3 -s
 -s Include text with the so-called "hidden text" attribute.
3 -t
 -t Output in text form. (default)
3 -w
 -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.
3 -x "document type definition"
  Output in XML form. Currently the only document type definition is 
   db (for DocBook). 
3 -L
 -L In PostScript mode: use landscape mode.

2 FILES
  Mapping files like 8859-1.txt
  Antiword looks for its maaping 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.
  

2 ENVIRONMENT
  Antiword uses the environment variable ANTIWORDHOME  as the first
  directory to look for its files. Antiword used 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).

2 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.

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/

2 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> contibuted to this manual page.
 
2 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

2 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.

2 VMS 
 This first attempt of a VMS port by J.Huber, March 2001
 

