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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#tips"/>
    <desc>You can convert a document to SVG by "printing" it to a file.</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>Converting a document to SVG</title>
<p>
You can convert documents of the following format types to SVG files:
</p>
<list>
 <item><p>Portable Document Format (.pdf)</p></item>
</list>
<p>
This works by opening the file in <app>Document Viewer</app> and "printing" the document as an SVG file.
</p>
<steps>
    <item>
      <p>
      Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq> and go to the
      <gui>General</gui> tab.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
      Select <gui>Print to File</gui> and choose SVG as the
      <gui>Output format</gui>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
      Choose a name and folder in which to save the file, then click <gui>Print</gui>.
      The SVG file will be saved in the folder you chose.
      </p>
    </item>
</steps>
</page>
