ABIWORD(1)

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.