ABIWORD(1)ABIWORD(1)NAMEabiword — flexible cross-platform word processor
SYNOPSISabiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]
DESCRIPTION
AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application suit‐
able 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 explic‐
itly specified with --to-name, the original filename will be
used (with a different extension, if necessary). See also EXAM‐
PLES.
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 con‐
figuration 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 ALSOenchant(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 Abi‐
Word) was made open source. AbiWord development was subsequently taken
over by volunteers and is driven by the community to date.
AbiWord 2.9 2012-04-26 ABIWORD(1)
