changelog

A free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. Antiword converts the files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000

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* Changes in Antiword from versions 0.22 to 0.37                           *
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Changes 0.36 to 0.37
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Bug fixes:
- Bug reported by Suzanne Skinner <[e-mail]> (and others) fixed
New features:
- XML/DocBook output now contains <footnote> tags
- Antiword is now based on DeskLib instead of RISC_OSLib (RISC OS only)
- Show page headers and footers (PostScript and PDF output only)
- Show text that was removed by the revisioning system
- Improved kantiword, based on information from Stefan Wiens <[e-mail]>

Changes 0.35 to 0.36
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Bug fixes:
- Bug reported by Michael Minn <[e-mail]> fixed
New features:
- The default mapping file is now based on the locale (Unix/Linux) or on
  the active codepage (DOS)
- A Word document can now be saved as "formatted" text. That means with things
  like *bold* to show bold text, /italics/ to show italics and _undeline_ to
  show underlined text are added to the plain text. Based on patches send by
  Ofir Reichenberg <[e-mail]>
- Improved table parsing. Based on information supplied by Bastien Legras
  <[e-mail]> and Alex de Kruijff <[e-mail]>
- A Word document can now be saved in PDF.
- First attempt to support PostScript output in the Cyrillic alphabet. Based
  on work done by Alexander Belyaev <[e-mail]>
- Better support for the Cyrillic alphabet

Changes 0.34 to 0.35
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Bug fixes:
- Fixed the bug in the use of the environment variable ANTIWORDHOME
New features:
- The XML/DocBook output is slightly better.
- Scale view window is closed when the main window is closed. Thanks to Tony
  Moore <[e-mail]> (RISC OS only)
- More support for WinWord 1.x documents

Changes 0.33 to 0.34
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Bug fixes:
- Bug in UTF-8 tables fixed
- Bug reported by Stewart Goldwater <[e-mail]> fixed
- Bug reported by Karl-Otto Linn <[e-mail]> fixed
- Fixed a bug that made DOS hang when Antiword processed a document > 8 MB.
New features:
- Better approximations for fancy characters in the output
- A Word document can now be saved as XML/DocBook.
- Linux Makefile is now closer to conventions.
- Support for Text Boxes
- An environment variable ANTIWORDHOME was added to create a more flexable
  place for the fontnames file and the mapping files.
- Antiword is now Latin9 enabled. Thanks to Stefan Bellon
  <[e-mail]> (RISC OS only)
- Some support for MacWord 4 and 5 documents
- More support for Word-for-DOS documents
- Support for superscripts and subscripts
- Displays slightly more images.
- Improved lists, especially in documents from Word 97 or later.

Changes 0.32 to 0.33
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Bug fixes:
- Bug reported by Yannick PERRET <[e-mail]> fixed
Old features:
- The -X option is no longer supported. Replace "-X 2" by "-m 8859-2.txt"
New features:
- Slightly more accurate font translation
- Full support for WinWord 2.0 documents
- Some support for Word-for-DOS and WinWord 1.x documents
- Selective header numbering
- Implementation of stylesheets
- The system-wide directory for the mapping files was changed from
  "/opt/antiword/share" to "/usr/share/antiword", in accordance with FHS,
  the file-system hierarchy standard, as suggested by Anand Buddhdev
  <[e-mail]>.
- Antiword now turns white text into light gray text.
- Antiword is now closer to "64-bit clean". Based on information supplied by
  Duncan Haldane <[e-mail]>.

Changes 0.31 to 0.32
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Bug fixes:
- Bug reported by Forrest J. Cavalier III <[e-mail]> fixed
- Bug reported by Jan ONDREJ (SAL) <[e-mail]> fixed
- Bug in dealing with RLE compressed bitmap images fixed
- Bug in image scaling fixed (RISC OS only)
New features:
- Improved leading (Unix only; PostScript version only)
- Antiword can now read from the standard input. This is based on an idea by
  Matthew Miller <[e-mail]>. (Unix only)
- A white background looks much better. (RISC OS only)
- A system-wide directory for the mapping files, as suggested by Sven Geggus
  <[e-mail]> and many others. (Unix only)
- Antiword can now deal with documents larger than 7 MB.

Changes 0.30 to 0.31
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Bug fixes:
- Bug in the "Show hidden (by Word) text" feature fixed
- Bug reported by David Aspinwall <[e-mail]> fixed
- Bug reported by Robert Steinmetz <[e-mail]> fixed
Old features:
- The -g and -c options are no longer supported. The -c option was the default
  and is now used automatically. (Unix only)
New features:
- Ability to display some of the images
- Ability to use landscape mode (Unix only; PostScript version only)
- Support for all ISO-8859 character sets plus KOI8 and some code pages
  (Unix only; text version only)
- Antiword will now give a warning if the specified PostScript paper size is
  unsupported. Thanks to Greg Robinson <[e-mail]>
- Changed from PostScript version 1 to version 2
- Antiword now returns 1 if no Word document is found among the files listed
  on the command line, as suggested by Jens Schleusener
  <[e-mail]>.
- Takes the right margin into account
- The PostScript part now supports the AvantGarde, Bookman, Helvetica-Narrow,
  NewCenturySchlbk and Palatino fonts (Unix only)
- More accurate fontnames translation table
- Initial scale factor is now configurable (RISC OS only)

Changes 0.29 to 0.30
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Bug fixes:
- Bug in the generated PostScript (nocurrentpoint) fixed
- Bug reported by Keith Bamford <[e-mail]> fixed
- Bug in the chapter numbering font fixed
New features:
- Improved handling of changes in the font size on a single line.
- Some support for long file names (RISC OS only)
- Thanks to David Kanareck <[e-mail]>, Antiword can
  now deal with documents made by "Word for Asian languages", but only
  when these documents are written in a European language.
- Character properties "Caps" and "SmallCaps" for accented characters
- More accurate fontnames translation table. (RISC OS only)
- PostScript part now supports the Times and Helvetica fonts. (Unix only)

Changes 0.28 to 0.29
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Bug fixes:
- Bug reported by Paul McCann <[e-mail]> fixed
- Character property "SmallCaps" works better now
- Bug reported by Richard Lambley <[e-mail]> fixed
- Fixed a bug in the linewidth computation (Unix only)
New features:
- A Word document can now be saved as PostScript (Unix only, Courier font only)
- Left, Center, Right and Justify alignment added for Word 97
- Supports the Macintosh character set

Changes 0.27 to 0.28
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Licence:
- Distributed under the GNU General Public License
Bug fixes:
- Bug reported by Richard Lambley <[e-mail]> has not
  been fixed yet.
- Deals correctly with fancy quotes in files from a Macintosh
New features:
- Supports character properties "SmallCaps", "Caps" and "Hidden Text"
- The use of fonts and font sizes for "fast saved" documents is now supported.
- Separators between the text, the footnotes and the endnotes
- Footnotes are now numbered in Arabic numericals (1, 2, 3), endnotes are now
  numbered in Roman numericals (i, ii, iii).

Changes 0.26 to 0.27
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Bug fixes:
- The main title now shows the first 12 characters of the file name.
New features:
- "Fast saved" documents are now supported for Word 97.
- All tables are now supported for Word 97.
- It is now possible to scale the text.

Changes 0.25 to 0.26
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Bug fixes:
- Fixed several problems with the Choices file
- Closed a small memory leak
New features:
- The use of fonts and font sizes for "full saved" documents is now supported.
- Most tables are now supported for Word 97.
- Header numbers are now supported for Word 97.

Changes 0.24 to 0.25
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Bug fixes:
- Improved handling of memory shortages
- Some special tables were messed up.
New features:
- "Fast saved" documents are now supported for Word 6 and 7.
- A new option to permit Antiword to change the filetype of Word documents to
  MSWord (&ae6).
- A Wordfile can now be saved as a Drawfile.
- The look and feel has been changed from editor-like to browser-like

Changes 0.23 to 0.24
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Bug fixes:
- Empty paragraphs in numbered list were not always numbered correctly.
- In very complex tables some text could get lost.
New features:
- F3 is now a shortcut to the "Save as" dialogue box.
- Left, Center, Right and Justify alignment added for Word 6 and 7
- [pic] marks the place where an image should have been.
- It is now possible to have a writeable Choices file, even when Antiword
  itself is on a read-only medium.

Changes 0.22 to 0.23
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New features:
- Paragraph breaks are now an option.
- Bulleted single level lists for files from Word 6 and 7
- Numbered single level lists (some styles) for files from Word 6 and 7