Reading word documents under linux with Antiword
Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD
Antiword is a Microsoft Word reader for Linux. I have been using, happily, Abiword for quite some time in order to view Word documents but since I found Antiword it has now superseded it. Antiword converts Word documents to either text or postscript, can display hidden text with the -s flag (text that will or will not be shown on the screen, subject to the users preferences, but is never printed (http://www.user-agent.org/word_docs.pdf), and can be interfaced with my MUA mutt with ‘echo “application/msword; antiword %s” >> .mailcap’.
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