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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
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files to everybody, because they believe that everybody runs Windows(R) and
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therefore runs Word".
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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
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Antiword is based on information gathered from the Internet and on
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guesswork.
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2) Antiword doesn't show all the images included in a Word document.
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3) Antiword doesn't do any hyphenation, because hyphenation is language
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dependent.
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4) Antiword places footnotes at the end of the text.
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5) Antiword places box text after normal text and not in a box.
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6) Antiword doesn't try to emulate any of Word's DTP abilities.
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7) PostScript ouput will not work in combination with UTF-8. It only works in
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combination with character sets ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2 and ISO-8859-5.
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8) Antiword's error messages are not very helpful.
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Known Bugs
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1) Antiword cannot handle encrypted documents.
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2) Antiword assumes default tab stops.
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3) Antiword doesn't handle frames.
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4) Antiword ignores page headers and footers.
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5) Antiword only handles lists in some of the styles.
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6) Antiword cannot handle some types of multilevel lists.
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7) Antiword assumes that all Word documents made on a Macintosh with Word
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version 6 or older use the MacRoman character set.
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