---
name: "kantiword"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "antiword"
version: "0.37-14"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kantiword"
---

# kantiword(1)

installs desktop icon for d'n'd function of antiword

## NAME

kantiword - installs desktop icon for d'n'd function of antiword

## SYNOPSIS

**kantiword** \[ *papersize  wordfile* \]

## DESCRIPTION

*kantiword* is a helper script for [antiword(1)](/antiword/1.md), an application that displays the text and the images of Microsoft Word documents.\
 Kantiword can be used to install an icon on your destop (into ~/Desktop dir), if it will be invoked with less that 2 parameters.\
 If it is called with 2 parameters, it will convert a copy of wordfile to PDF and display it. Plain text output will be used, if no PDF viewer like kpdf, xpdf or gv is installed.

## PARAMETER

- **papersize**

  paper size ('a4' or 'letter') of given wordfile.

- **wordfile**

  Microsoft Word document to display.

## SEE ALSO

[**antiword**(1)](/antiword/1.md).\

## AUTHOR

kantiword was written by Adri van Os \<antiword@winfield.demon.nl\> and adapted by Erik Schanze \<eriks@debian.org\>.

This manual page was written by Erik Schanze \<eriks@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.\
 Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.\
 Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.