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- Questions and Answers (RISC OS version)
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- Q1: How do I install Antiword?
- A1: Copy the application-directory and all the files within it to a
- suitable directory.
- Q2: How do I use Antiword?
- A2: Double click on a Word document, filetype MSWord (&ae6). Or drag and drop
- a file onto the Antiword icon on the iconbar.
- Q3: How does Antiword deal with Word macro viruses?
- A3: Antiword does not run any Word macros because it cannot do so.
- Therefore your Archimedes will not be harmed by such a virus.
- Q4: What does the 'Paragraph breaks' option do?
- A4: This option controls the maximum number of characters per line in
- paragraphs. If your screen is 640 pixels wide (like modes 20 and 27)
- than 76 is probably best. If your screen is 800 or more pixels wide
- (like mode 31) then numbers near 94 work best. You can switch this
- option off if the (text only) output of Antiword will be the input to a
- wordprocessor or a DTP program.
- Q5: What does the 'Auto filetype' option do?
- A5: When auto filetype is allowed, Antiword will change the filetype of
- Word documents to MSWord (&ae6)
- Q6: When Antiword uses outline fonts it becomes terribly slow. What can I
- do about this?
- A6: When Antiword uses outline fonts it needs a large font cache. A small
- font cache will make Antiword (very) slow. The larger the font cache the
- better, but usually 160K or 256K will do.
- Q7: What is the purpose of the file 'FontNames' in the Choices directory?
- A7: This file provides a translation table from the font names found in a
- Word document to the font names used by the RISC OS font-manager.
- The file 'FontNames' is can be edited to match your font collection.
- Some examples are provided in the Resources directory.
- Q8: What is 'Hidden Text'?
- A8: Hidden Text is Microsoft speak for text that may or may not be shown
- on the screen, subject to the user's preferences, but such text is never
- printed.
- Q9: After upgrading to a new version of Antiword, I found that Antiword does
- not put a new _updated_ version of FontNames in !Choices. Why not?
- A9: The user can change the file Fontnames to reflect the fonts available
- on a specific computer. Antiword cannot be permitted to overwrite changes
- made by a user. So after upgrading you should remove or rename the old
- FontNames file.
- Q10: Why does Antiword freeze my computer while converting the Word document?
- A10: This can happen when the Word document contains a very large image and
- the image must be scaled to a much smaller size before displaying. The
- delay occurs while RISC OS does the scaling, so there is not much
- Antiword can do about it.
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