AbiWord to OpenDocument Text converter

• AbiWord is opened by our office engine headless and exported as OpenDocument Text, prioritizing office fidelity for abw-to-odt.
• Paragraph styles, tables, images, headers, footers, and page breaks are preserved when our office engine can map them.
• Macros, scripts, document automation, and active form behaviour are not executed or preserved in the output.
• Missing fonts are substituted by server fonts, so line breaks and pagination can shift from the authoring machine.
• Tracked changes are accepted as the visible document state; reviewer comments may not appear unless they are visible in the exported view.
• The destination office file is editable but may not keep application-specific templates, themes, or unsupported controls exactly.

We converted our AbiWord sample (345 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 6.9 s and produced a 284 KB OpenDocument Text file, 18% smaller than the input. The engine raised 1 warning, listed below.

• △Fonts that are not installed on our servers are replaced with substitutes, so lines can wrap differently.

filter

Override the office engine convert-to filter string when an advanced workflow needs a specific export filter.

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=abw&to=odt.

curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.abw" -F "from=abw" -F "to=odt" \
  --output output.odt

• AbiWord to Word DOCX
• AbiWord to PDF
• Word DOCX to OpenDocument Text