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Questions and Answers (RISC OS version)
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Q1: How do I install Antiword?
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A1: Copy the application-directory and all the files within it to a
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suitable directory.
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Q2: How do I use Antiword?
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A2: Double click on a Word document, filetype MSWord (&ae6). Or drag and drop
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a file onto the Antiword icon on the iconbar.
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Q3: How does Antiword deal with Word macro viruses?
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A3: Antiword does not run any Word macros because it cannot do so.
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Therefore your Archimedes will not be harmed by such a virus.
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Q4: What does the 'Paragraph breaks' option do?
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A4: This option controls the maximum number of characters per line in
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paragraphs. If your screen is 640 pixels wide (like modes 20 and 27)
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than 76 is probably best. If your screen is 800 or more pixels wide
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(like mode 31) then numbers near 94 work best. You can switch this
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option off if the (text only) output of Antiword will be the input to a
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wordprocessor or a DTP program.
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The pagebreak setting refers to the number of characters when you use
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the system font. When you use an outline font only the width of that
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number of characters in the system font is used.
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Q5: What does the 'Auto filetype' option do?
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A5: When auto filetype is allowed, Antiword will change the filetype of
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Word documents to MSWord (&ae6)
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Q6: When Antiword uses outline fonts it becomes terribly slow. What can I
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do about this?
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A6: When Antiword uses outline fonts it needs a large font cache. A small
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font cache will make Antiword (very) slow. The larger the font cache the
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better, but usually 160K or 256K will do.
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Q7: What is the purpose of the file 'FontNames' in the Choices directory?
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A7: This file provides a translation table from the font names found in a
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Word document to the font names used by the RISC OS font-manager.
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The file 'FontNames' is can be edited to match your font collection.
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Some examples are provided in the Resources directory.
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Q8: What is 'Hidden Text'?
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A8: Hidden Text is Microsoft speak for text that may or may not be shown
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on the screen, subject to the user's preferences, but such text is never
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printed.
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Q9: After upgrading to a new version of Antiword, I found that Antiword does
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not put a new _updated_ version of FontNames in !Choices. Why not?
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A9: The user can change the file Fontnames to reflect the fonts available
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on a specific computer. Antiword cannot be permitted to overwrite changes
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made by a user. So after upgrading you should remove or rename the old
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FontNames file.
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Q10: Why does Antiword freeze my computer while converting the Word document?
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A10: This can happen when the Word document contains a very large image and
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the image must be scaled to a much smaller size before displaying. The
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delay occurs while RISC OS does the scaling, so there is not much
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Antiword can do about it.
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