1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="convertSVG" xml:lang="wa"> 3 4 <info> 5 <link type="guide" xref="index#tips"/> 6 <desc>You can convert a document to SVG by "printing" it to a file.</desc> 7 <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/> 8 <credit type="author"> 9 <name>Phil Bull</name> 10 <email>philbull@gmail.com</email> 11 </credit> 12 <credit type="editor"> 13 <name>Anna Philips</name> 14 <email>anna.cs.au@gmail.com</email> 15 </credit> 16 <license> 17 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> 18 </license> 19 20 </info> 21 22<title>Converting a document to SVG</title> 23<p> 24You can convert documents of the following format types to SVG files: 25</p> 26<list> 27 <item><p>Portable Document Format (.pdf)</p></item> 28</list> 29<p> 30This works by opening the file in <app>Atril</app> and "printing" the document as an SVG file. 31</p> 32<steps> 33 <item> 34 <p> Go to 35 <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">File</gui> 36 <gui style="menuitem">Print</gui></guiseq> 37 and 38 select <gui>Print</gui> or press 39 <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>P</key></keyseq>.</p> 40 </item> 41 <item> 42 <p> 43 Select <gui>Print to File</gui> and choose SVG as the 44 <gui>Output format</gui>. 45 </p> 46 </item> 47 <item> 48 <p> 49 Choose a name and folder in which to save the file, then click <gui>Print</gui>. 50 The SVG file will be saved in the folder you chose. 51 </p> 52 </item> 53</steps> 54</page> 55