Abiword (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

abiword — flexible cross-platform word processor

SYNOPSIS

abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME…]

DESCRIPTION

AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application suitable for a wide range of word processing tasks, and extensible with a variety of plugins. It integrates with enchant(1) to provide spell-checking.

OPTIONS

-g WxH[+X+Y], –geometry=WxH[+X+Y]

Specifies window geometry at startup.

-E PLUGIN, –plugin=PLUGIN

Execute the specified plugin instead of the main application.

–import-extension=EXT

Import the given file as if it had extension EXT, overriding automatic file type detection.

-u PROFILE, –userprofile=PROFILE

Use PROFILE instead of the default ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile to read and store settings.

-t DEST, –to=DEST

Convert the given file to another format, writing the result to DEST. The format of DEST is determined by its extension.
See also –to=FORMAT and –to-name.

-t FORMAT, –to=FORMAT

Convert the given files(s) to the given format. Unless explicitly specified with –to-name, the original filename will be used (with a different extension, if necessary). See also EXAMPLES.

The more popular values for FORMAT include:

`abw`	Abiword XML format (`zabw` for gzip, `bzabw` for bzip2 compression)
`dbk`	DocBook XML
`doc`	Microsoft Word binary format
`docx`	Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions)
`html`	Hypertext Markup Language
`kwd`	KWord
`odt`	OpenDocument Text
`pdf`	Portable Document Format
`rtf`	Rich Text Format
`sxw`	OpenOffice.org Writer 1.0
`txt`	Plain text

–to-name=DEST

Only useful in conjunction with –to=FORMAT. Specifies where the converted document shall be written to.

–verbose=LEVEL

Set level of verbosity [0-2], 2 giving the most detailed output.

-h, –help

Display a short help message and exit.

–version

Report the version of AbiWord.

EXAMPLES

To convert the document example.abw to RTF: abiword –to=rtf example.abw The resulting file will be named example.rtf. To print a document: abiword –to=ps –to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to the Bugzilla bug tracking system at <http://bugzilla.abisource.com>.

HISTORY

AbiWord was started in 1998 by AbiSource Inc., a company founded by SourceGear corporation. The initial plan was to build a free office suite named AbiSuite, encompassing word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. As they didn’t have a usable product when their venture capital was up, the code already developed (namely AbiWord) was made open source. AbiWord development was subsequently taken over by volunteers and is driven by the community to date.

abiword (1) Linux Manual Page