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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"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.10.3" date="2014-03-22" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>فیل بول</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Anna Philips</name>
      <email>anna.cs.au@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>Papers</app> and "printing" the document as an SVG file.
</p>
<steps>
    <item>
      <p>Click the <gui>File options</gui> menu in the top right corner and
      select <gui>Print</gui> or press
      <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>P</key></keyseq>.</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>
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