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2 * Changes in AntiWord between versions 0.22 and 0.33 *
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8 - Bug reported by Yannick PERRET <yperret@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr> fixed
10 - The -X option is no longer supported. Replace "-X 2" by "-m 8859-2.txt"
12 - A little more accurate font translation
13 - Full support for documents from WinWord 2.0
14 - Some support for documents from Word-for-DOS and WinWord 1.x
15 - Selective header numbering.
16 - Implementation of stylesheets.
17 - The system-wide directory for the mapping files was changed from
18 "/opt/antiword/share" into "/usr/share/antiword", in accordance with FHS,
19 the file-system hierarchy standard. As suggested by Anand Buddhdev
21 - Antiword now turns white text into light gray text.
22 - Antiword is now closer to "64-bit clean". Based on information supplied by
23 Duncan Haldane <f.duncan.m.haldane@worldnet.att.net>
28 - Bug reported by Forrest J. Cavalier III <mibsoft@mibsoftware.com> fixed
29 - Bug reported by Jan ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk> fixed
30 - Bug in dealing with RLE compressed bitmap images fixed
31 - Bug in the image scaling fixed (RISC OS only)
33 - Improved leading. (Unix only; PostScript version only)
34 - Antiword can now read from the standard input. This is based on an idea by
35 Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> (Unix only)
36 - A white background looks much better. (RISC OS only)
37 - A system-wide directory for the mapping files. As suggested by Sven Geggus
38 <sven@geggus.net> and many others. (Unix only)
39 - Antiword can now deal with documents larger than 7 MB.
44 - Bug in the "Show hidden (by Word) text" feature fixed
45 - Bug reported by David Aspinwall <aspinwall@timesten.com> fixed
46 - Bug reported by Robert Steinmetz <rob@steinmetznet.com> fixed
48 - The -g and -c options are no longer supported. The -c option was default
49 and is now used automatically (Unix only)
51 - Ability to show part of the images.
52 - Ability to use landscape mode (Unix only; PostScript version only)
53 - Support for all ISO-8859 character sets plus KOI8 and some code pages
54 (Unix only; text version only)
55 - Antiword will now give a warning if the given Postscript papersize is
56 unsupported. Thanks to Greg Robinson <Greg.Robinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
57 - Moved from Postscript version 1 to version 2
58 - Antiword now returns 1 if no Word document is found among the files given
59 on the command-line. As suggested by Jens Schleusener
60 <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>
61 - Takes the right margin into account.
62 - The PostScript part now supports the AvantGarde, Bookman, Helvetica-Narrow,
63 NewCenturySchlbk and Palatino font (Unix only)
64 - More accurate fontnames translation table
65 - Initial scale factor is now configurable (RISC OS only)
70 - Bug in the generated PostScript (nocurrentpoint) fixed
71 - Bug reported by Keith Bamford <kbamford@eurobell.co.uk> fixed
72 - Bug in the chapter numbering font fixed
74 - Improved dealing with changes in the fontsize on a single line.
75 - Some support for long filenames (RISC OS only)
76 - Thanks to David Kanareck <david@davidkanareck.demon.co.uk> AntiWord can
77 now deal with documents made by "Word for Asian languages". But only
78 when such documents are written in a European language.
79 - Character properties "Caps" and "SmallCaps" for accented characters
80 - More accurate fontnames translation table (RISC OS only)
81 - PostScript part now supports the Times and Helvetica fonts (Unix only)
86 - Bug reported by Paul McCann <P.J.McCann@cfm1220.x400.icl.co.uk> fixed
87 - Character property "SmallCaps" works better now
88 - Bug reported by Richard Lambley <richard@wireless.demon.co.uk> fixed
89 - Fixed a bug in the linewidth computation (Unix only)
91 - A Wordfile can now be saved as PostScript (Unix only, Courier font only)
92 - Left, Center, Right and Justify alignment added for Word97
93 - Supports de Macintosh characterset
98 - Distributed under the GNU General Public License
100 - Bug reported by Richard Lambley <richard@wireless.demon.co.uk> has not
102 - Deals correctly with fancy quotes in files from a Macintosh
104 - Supports character properties "SmallCaps", "Caps" and "Hidden Text"
105 - The use of fonts and fontsizes for "fast saved" documents is now supported
106 - Separators between the text, the footnotes and the endnotes
107 - Footnotes are now numbered in arabic numericals (1,2,3), endnotes are now
108 numbered in roman numericals (i,ii,iii)
113 - The main title now shows the first 12 characters of the filename
115 - "Fast saved" documents are now supported for Word 97
116 - All tables are now supported for Word 97
117 - It is now possible to scale the text
122 - Fixed several problems with the Choices file
123 - Closed a small memory leak
125 - The use of fonts and fontsizes for "full saved" documents is now supported
126 - Most tables are now supported for Word 97
127 - Header numbers are now supported for Word 97
132 - Improved handling of memory shortages
133 - Some special tables were messed up
135 - "Fast saved" documents are now supported for Word 6 and 7
136 - A new option to permit AntiWord to change the filetype of Wordfiles to
138 - A Wordfile can now be saved as a Drawfile
139 - The look-and-feel has been changed from editor-like to browser-like
144 - Empty paragraphs in numbered list were not always numbered correctly
145 - In very complex tables some text could get lost
147 - F3 is now a shortcut to the "Save as" dialogue box
148 - Left, Center, Right and Justify alignment added for Word 6 and 7
149 - [pic] marks the place where a picture should have been
150 - The is now possible to have a writeable Choices file, even when AntiWord
151 itself is on a read-only medium
156 - Paragraph breaks are now an option
157 - Bulleted single level lists for files from Word 6 and 7
158 - Numbered single level lists (some styles) for files from Word 6 and 7