ABIWORD(1)

🎀 ABIWORD(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

okay bestie, let's talk about abiword 💅 it's the General Commands Manual entry, and this word processor is literally so good. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

abiword — flexible cross-platform word processor 🦋

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing app that's giving everything you need for basically any writing task 💅 and it's extensible with a whole bunch of plugins 🔥 it also hooks into enchant(1) for spell-checking, so no typo can hide from you ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -g WxH[+X+Y], --geometry=WxH[+X+Y] — sets the window geometry when it starts up 🪟
• -E PLUGIN, --plugin=PLUGIN — runs the plugin you name instead of the main app 🧚
• --import-extension=EXT — imports the file like it has extension EXT, overriding the automatic file type detection 🙈
• -u PROFILE, --userprofile=PROFILE — reads and stores your settings in PROFILE instead of the default XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile 💜
• -t DEST, --to=DEST — converts the file and writes the result to DEST. the format comes from the extension on DEST 🦋 see also --to=FORMAT and --to-name
• -t FORMAT, --to=FORMAT — converts the given files to FORMAT 🌈 unless you set --to-name, the original filename gets reused (with a new extension if it needs one). see also EXAMPLES 👀

the popular FORMAT values are:

• abw — Abiword XML format (zabw for gzip, bzabw for bzip2 compression) 🍓
• dbk — DocBook XML 📚
• doc — Microsoft Word binary format 💾
• docx — Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions) ✨
• html — Hypertext Markup Language 🌐
• kwd — KWord 🩷
• odt — OpenDocument Text 🫧
• pdf — Portable Document Format 📄
• rtf — Rich Text Format 💅
• sxw — OpenOffice.org Writer 1.0 🕰️
• txt — Plain text 🤍

• --to-name=DEST — only works together with --to=FORMAT. tells it where to write the converted document 🎯
• --verbose=LEVEL — sets how chatty it is, LEVEL from [0-2]. 2 gives the most detailed output 🔍
• -h, --help — shows a short help message and exits 🫶
• --version — reports the version of AbiWord 🏷️

🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

• HOME — defines your home directory 🏠
• XDG_CONFIG_HOME — the base directory where your user-specific config files live. (check the XDG Base Directory Specification for the deets 📖)

📁 FILES 📁

• XDG_CONFIG_HOME/abiword/profile — the default user profile file 🎀 if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset or empty, it falls back to HOME/.config 🫶

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

to convert example.abw to RTF 💖

abiword --to=rtf example.abw

the result gets saved as example.rtf 🦋

to print a document 🖨️

abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp

🚨 REPORTING BUGS 🚨

bestie, if something's broken, report it to the Bugzilla bug tracking system at <http://bugzilla.abisource.com> 😭

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• enchant(1) 🌈

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

so AbiWord got started in 1998 by AbiSource Inc., a company founded by SourceGear corporation ✨ the original plan was to build a free office suite called AbiSuite, with word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation apps all in one 🫧 but when their venture capital ran out before they had a usable product, the code they'd already written (namely AbiWord) got released as open source 💜 volunteers took it over after that, and the community is still driving it today 👑

aaand that's the whole tea 🫶 AbiWord 2.9, dated 2012-04-26, ABIWORD(1) 💅🩷