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6 <link type="guide" xref="index#other"/>
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8 <desc>You can convert a document to SVG by "printing" it to a file.</desc>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.30.3" version="0.1" date="2010-07-26" status="review"/>
11 <credit type="author">
12 <name>Phil Bull</name>
13 <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
16 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
21 <title>Converting A Document To SVG</title>
23 You can convert documents of the following format types to SVG files:
26 <item><p>Portable Document Format (.pdf)</p></item>
29 This works by opening the file in Document Viewer and "printing" the document as an SVG file.
34 Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq> and go to the
35 <gui>General</gui> tab.
40 Select <gui>Print to File</gui> and choose SVG as the
41 <gui>Output format</gui>.
46 Choose a name and folder to save the file in, then click <gui>Print</gui>.
47 The SVG file will be saved in the folder you chose.