About:
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.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

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.

Author:
Adri van Os [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.85/10.00 (18 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/linux/antiword-0.37.tar.gz
RPM package:
http://www.volny.cz/zellerin/rpmmenu.html
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/antiword
Mirror site:
http://antiword.cjb.net/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Office/Business, Text Editors :: Word Processors, Text Processing :: Filters, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.37	28-Nov-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.37	Minor feature enhancements	28-Nov-2005 14:18
0.36.1	Minor bugfixes	13-Dec-2004 20:14
0.36	Minor feature enhancements	15-Nov-2004 20:42
0.35	Minor feature enhancements	09-Dec-2003 13:24
0.34	Major bugfixes	15-Oct-2003 14:40
0.33	Minor feature enhancements	13-Aug-2002 08:15
0.32	Minor feature enhancements	05-Nov-2001 21:47
0.31	N/A	09-Jan-2001 21:56
0.30	N/A	04-Jul-2000 11:19

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New antiword packages fix insecure temporary file creation
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Jan 17th 2006 11:34