**************************************************************************** * Changes in Antiword from versions 0.22 to 0.37 * **************************************************************************** Changes 0.36 to 0.37 -------------------- Bug fixes: - Bug reported by Suzanne Skinner (and others) fixed New features: - XML/DocBook output now contains 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 Changes 0.35 to 0.36 -------------------- Bug fixes: - Bug reported by Michael Minn 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 - Improved table parsing. Based on information supplied by Bastien Legras and Alex de Kruijff - 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 - Better support for the Cyrillic alphabet Changes 0.34 to 0.35 -------------------- 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 (RISC OS only) - More support for WinWord 1.x documents Changes 0.33 to 0.34 -------------------- Bug fixes: - Bug in UTF-8 tables fixed - Bug reported by Stewart Goldwater fixed - Bug reported by Karl-Otto Linn 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 (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 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 . - Antiword now turns white text into light gray text. - Antiword is now closer to "64-bit clean". Based on information supplied by Duncan Haldane . Changes 0.31 to 0.32 -------------------- Bug fixes: - Bug reported by Forrest J. Cavalier III fixed - Bug reported by Jan ONDREJ (SAL) 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 . (Unix only) - A white background looks much better. (RISC OS only) - A system-wide directory for the mapping files, as suggested by Sven Geggus 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 fixed - Bug reported by Robert Steinmetz 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 - 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 . - 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 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 , 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 fixed - Character property "SmallCaps" works better now - Bug reported by Richard Lambley 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 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