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abiword flexible cross-platform word processor .

abiword [ OPTIONS ] [ FILENAME... ] .

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

R enchant (1) to provide spell-checking. .

• DEBUTINLINE-g W\fRxH[+X+Y] , --geometry= W\fRxH[+X+Y]FININLINE
      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 DESTis determined by its extension.
  See also --to=\fIFORMAT 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:
      .TS lb lx. abw T{ Abiword XML format (zabw for gzip, bzabw for bzip2 compression) T} dbk DocBook XML doc Microsoft Word binary format docx T{ Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions) T} 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 \fR. 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. .

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 .

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

R enchant (1)

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.