converts MSWord Documents to ASCII Text and PostScript
Changes 0.30-0.31
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Bug fixes:
- Bug in the "Show hidden (by Word) text" feature fixed
- Bug reported by David Aspinwall <aspinwall@timesten.com> fixed
- Bug reported by Robert Steinmetz <rob@steinmetznet.com> fixed
Old features:
- The -g and -c options are no longer supported. The -c option was default
and is now used automatically (Unix only)
New features:
- Ability to show part of the images.
- Ability to use landscape mode (Unix only; PostScript version only)
- Support for all ISO-8859 character sets plus KOI8 and some code pages
(Unix only; text version only)
- Antiword will now give a warning if the given Postscript papersize is
unsupported. Thanks to Greg Robinson <Greg.Robinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
- Moved from Postscript version 1 to version 2
- Antiword now returns 1 if no Word document is found among the files given
on the command-line. As suggested by Jens Schleusener
<Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>
- Takes the right margin into account.
- The PostScript part now supports the AvantGarde, Bookman, Helvetica-Narrow,
NewCenturySchlbk and Palatino font (Unix only)
- More accurate fontnames translation table
- Initial scale factor is now configurable (RISC OS only)
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