antiword
Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, RISC OS, and DOS. It converts the documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 to text, Postscript, and XML/DocBook. Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.
| Tags | Office/Business Text Editors Word Processors Text Processing Filters Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 28 Nov 2005 06:18
Changes: Displaying of page headers and footers was implemented for PostScript and PDF output. "footnote" tags were added to XML/DocBook output. Support for text removed by the revisioning system was added. The KDE helper script kantiword was improved.
- 13 Dec 2004 12:14
Changes: This release fixes a minor off-by-one bug.
- 15 Nov 2004 12:42
Changes: Better support for the Cyrillic alphabet was implemented. The ability to output directly in PDF was added.
- 09 Dec 2003 05:24
Changes: This release fixes a bug in the use of the environment variable ANTIWORDHOME. It slightly improves the XML/DocBook output and adds more support for WinWord 1.x documents.
- 15 Oct 2003 07:40
Changes: This release includes better approximations for fancy characters in the output, support for text boxes, support for MacWord 4 and 5 as well as Word-for-DOS documents, support for superscripts and subscripts, as well as improved lists. Several bugs were fixed.
