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+History of Antiword by (C) Adri van Os
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+
+The Name
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+The name comes from: "The antidote against people who send Microsoft(R) Word
+files to everybody, because they believe that everybody runs Windows(R) and
+therefore runs Word".
+
+
+Version 0.37 (21 Oct 2005)
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+Beta release, for evaluation by the public.
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+
+Known Limitations
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+
+1) The layout of Word documents is kept secret by Microsoft(R). Therefore
+   Antiword is based on information gathered from the Internet and on
+   guesswork.
+2) Antiword doesn't show all the images included in a Word document.
+3) Antiword doesn't do any hyphenation, because hyphenation is language
+   dependent.
+4) Antiword places footnotes at the end of the text.
+5) Antiword places box text after normal text and not in a box.
+6) Antiword doesn't try to emulate any of Word's DTP abilities.
+7) PostScript ouput will not work in combination with UTF-8. It only works in
+   combination with character sets ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2 and ISO-8859-5.
+8) Antiword's error messages are not very helpful.
+
+
+Known Bugs
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+
+1) Antiword cannot handle encrypted documents.
+2) Antiword assumes default tab stops.
+3) Antiword doesn't handle frames.
+4) Antiword ignores page headers and footers.
+5) Antiword only handles lists in some of the styles.
+6) Antiword cannot handle some types of multilevel lists.
+7) Antiword assumes that all Word documents made on a Macintosh with Word
+   version 6 or older use the MacRoman character set.