text
or .pdf
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This service is based on the excellent antiword program which is
available from http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Worth knowing: this service is based on simple scripts that assume
one user at a time, if several people use it at once then you might
end up with the wrong document!
Also this service is not secure, anyone can read your word document
from the time you convert until the next conversion has taken place.
Do not use it for anything confidential.
A common error (resulting in no document or a blank document is to
supply the filename but not the complete path. Some browsers require
a fully qualified path to locate the file.
Another possible problem resulting in empty pdf documents is that the
word document was encoded using UTF-8, antiword does not support conversion
from UTF-8 to postscript (yet) so my script can't produce pdfs (text is usually OK).
Also it is possible that during a system upgrade or something the shell
encoding could be changed to UTF-8 which can confuse antiword - if you get this
problem and it is the same for a few word docs let Matt know "about a potential
antiword-UTF-8 problem (/etc/sysconfig/i18n)".