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NAME

       abiword — flexible cross-platform word processor

SYNOPSIS

       abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]

DESCRIPTION

       AbiWord  is  a  full-featured,  efficient  word  processing application suitable for a wide range of word
       processing tasks, and extensible with a variety of plugins. It  integrates  with  enchant(1)  to  provide
       spell-checking.

OPTIONS

       -g WxH[+X+Y], --geometry=WxH[+X+Y]
              Specifies window geometry at startup.

       -E PLUGIN, --plugin=PLUGIN
              Execute the specified plugin instead of the main application.

       --import-extension=EXT
              Import the given file as if it had extension EXT, overriding automatic file type detection.

       -u PROFILE, --userprofile=PROFILE
              Use PROFILE to read and store settings instead of the default XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile.

       -t DEST, --to=DEST
              Convert  the  given  file  to  another  format, writing the result to DEST.  The format of DEST is
              determined by its extension.
              See also --to=FORMAT and --to-name.

       -t FORMAT, --to=FORMAT
              Convert the given files(s) to the given format. Unless explicitly specified  with  --to-name,  the
              original filename will be used (with a different extension, if necessary). See also EXAMPLES.

              The more popular values for FORMAT include:

                     abw    Abiword XML format (zabw for gzip, bzabw for bzip2 compression)
                     dbk    DocBook XML
                     doc    Microsoft Word binary format
                     docx   Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions)
                     html   Hypertext Markup Language
                     kwd    KWord
                     odt    OpenDocument Text
                     pdf    Portable Document Format
                     rtf    Rich Text Format
                     sxw    OpenOffice.org Writer 1.0
                     txt    Plain text

       --to-name=DEST
              Only  useful  in  conjunction  with  --to=FORMAT.  Specifies where the converted document shall be
              written to.

       --verbose=LEVEL
              Set level of verbosity [0-2], 2 giving the most detailed output.

       -h, --help
              Display a short help message and exit.

       --version
              Report the version of AbiWord.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       HOME   Defines the user's home directory.

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME
              Defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should  be  stored.
              (See the XDG Base Directory Specification for details.)

FILES

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile
              The  default user profile file. (If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to
              HOME/.config will be used.)

EXAMPLES

       To convert the document example.abw to RTF:
           abiword --to=rtf example.abw
       The resulting file will be named example.rtf.

       To print a document:
           abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to the Bugzilla bug tracking system at <http://bugzilla.abisource.com>.

SEE ALSO

       enchant(1)

HISTORY

       AbiWord was started in 1998 by AbiSource Inc., a company founded by SourceGear corporation.  The  initial
       plan  was  to  build  a  free  office suite named AbiSuite, encompassing word processing, spreadsheet and
       presentation applications. As they didn't have a usable product when their venture capital  was  up,  the
       code already developed (namely AbiWord) was made open source.  AbiWord development was subsequently taken
       over by volunteers and is driven by the community to date.