Antiword -Example

Antiword is an Open C console-based application. ANTIWORD can be used -for the following purposes:

converts a MS-word document (i.e. .doc) file in to a plain text(i.e. .txt) -file.

converts a MS-word document (i.e. .doc) file in to a Adobe acrobat(i.e. -.pdf) file.

converts MS-word document (i.e. .doc) file in to a post-script (i.e. .ps) -file.

Design and -Implementation

The following sections provide information about -the implementation of the example.

Capabilities

The following -program capability is defined in the antiword.mmp file: CAPABILITY -None

Implementation details of EXE

This application -uses main() as the entry point for the application. This is simple console -based application. Antiword is C application that is ported on the Open C -which demonstrates the changes made in the application in order to work on -Open C. All changes made to the open source code is under SYMBIAN macro. - Some of the environment variables are set explicitly using the Open C's setenv() -API. The fillArg() subroutine converts the given input command string to -Linux's argv() format. Output of the conversion will be written to destination -file i.e last commandline argument where as the original application expects -the users to use the redirection operators for dumping the output to a target -file. Some status messages will be prompted to the user in case of wrong input -commands. The commandline help will be printed on the stdout using the original -help text. The input data files (font and mapping files for conversion) are -added in the /data/resources directory and this directory will be exported -to the private folder of the Antiword application's, so that /private/A0001323/resources/ -will be used as the ANTIWORD_HOME directory in the application. The application -can be launched by clicking its icon in the emulator as well as in the device.

Limitations

Antiword -is not able to convert the embedded image or any other embedded multimedia -objects from the document file. It converts only the text. Some of the related -files, which supports the embedded images are commented in the mmp file as -these files depend on the open source's sprite library.