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- * Changes in Antiword from versions 0.22 to 0.34 *
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- Changes 0.33 to 0.34
- --------------------
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug in UTF-8 tables fixed
- - Bug reported by Stewart Goldwater <sg@janus.freeserve.co.uk> fixed
- - Bug reported by Karl-Otto Linn <linn@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de> 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 mapping files.
- - Antiword is now Latin9 enabled. Thanks to Stefan Bellon
- <sbellon@sbellon.de> (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
- --------------------
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug reported by Yannick PERRET <yperret@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr> 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
- <arb@anand.org>.
- - Antiword now turns white text into light gray text.
- - Antiword is now closer to "64-bit clean". Based on information supplied by
- Duncan Haldane <f.duncan.m.haldane@worldnet.att.net>.
- Changes 0.31 to 0.32
- --------------------
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug reported by Forrest J. Cavalier III <mibsoft@mibsoftware.com> fixed
- - Bug reported by Jan ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk> 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 <mattdm@mattdm.org>. (Unix only)
- - A white background looks much better. (RISC OS only)
- - A system-wide directory for the mapping files, as suggested by Sven Geggus
- <sven@geggus.net> and many others. (Unix only)
- - Antiword can now deal with documents larger than 7 MB.
- Changes 0.30 to 0.31
- --------------------
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug in the "Show hidden (by Word) text" feature fixed
- - Bug reported by David Aspinwall <aspinwall@timesten.com> fixed
- - Bug reported by Robert Steinmetz <rob@steinmetznet.com> 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 <Greg.Robinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
- - 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
- <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>.
- - 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
- --------------------
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug in the generated PostScript (nocurrentpoint) fixed
- - Bug reported by Keith Bamford <kbamford@eurobell.co.uk> 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 <david@davidkanareck.demon.co.uk>, 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
- --------------------
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug reported by Paul McCann <P.J.McCann@cfm1220.x400.icl.co.uk> fixed
- - Character property "SmallCaps" works better now
- - Bug reported by Richard Lambley <richard@wireless.demon.co.uk> 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
- --------------------
- Licence:
- - Distributed under the GNU General Public License
- Bug fixes:
- - Bug reported by Richard Lambley <richard@wireless.demon.co.uk> 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
- --------------------
- 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
- --------------------
- 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
- --------------------
- 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
- --------------------
- 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
- --------------------
- 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
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