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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#pres"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="convertpdf"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="convertPostScript"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="convertSVG"/>
    <desc>PDF, PostScript and many others are.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.1" date="2011-09-05" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Supported formats</title>

<p>
The <app>document viewer</app> supports the following formats:
</p>
<list>
 <item><p>Comic Book Archive (.cbr and .cbz)</p></item>
 <item><p>Device Independent file format (.dvi)</p></item>
 <item><p>DjVu (.djvu, .djv)</p></item>
 <item><p>OpenOffice Presentation (.odp)</p></item>
 <item><p>Portable Document Format (.pdf)</p></item>
 <item><p>PostScript (.ps)</p></item>
 <item><p>Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)</p></item>
 <item><p>Tagged Image File Format (.tiff, .tif)</p></item>
 <item><p>Other Image Files (.gif, .jpeg, .png)</p></item>
</list>
<note>
<p>
In some Linux distributions, not all formats are supported by default, so you might not be able to view all the formats listed above.
</p>
<p>
Support for a format is called a <em>backend</em>.  If you get the error "Unable to Open Document", you may wish to check whether the backend package for the format is installed.
</p>
</note>



</page>
