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diff --git a/help/C/convertpdf.page b/help/C/convertpdf.page new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1bb11ac4 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/C/convertpdf.page @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" + type="topic" style="task" + id="convertpdf"> + + <info> + <link type="guide" xref="index#tips"/> + <desc>You can convert a document to PDF by "printing" it to a file.</desc> + <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/> + <credit type="author"> + <name>Phil Bull</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </credit> + <credit type="editor"> + <name>Anna Philips</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </credit> + <license> + <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> + </license> + + </info> + +<title>Converting a document to PDF</title> + +<p> +You can convert documents of the following format types into PDF format: +</p> +<list> + <item><p>Device Independent file format (.dvi)</p></item> + <item><p>PostScript (.ps)</p></item> +</list> +<p> +This works by opening the file in <app>Atril</app> and "printing" the document as a PDF file. +</p> +<steps> + <item> + <p> Go to + <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">File</gui> + <gui style="menuitem">Print</gui></guiseq> + and + select <gui>Print</gui> or press + <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>P</key></keyseq> on your keyboard.</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Select <gui>Print to File</gui> and choose PDF 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 PDF will be saved in the folder you chose. + </p> + </item> +</steps> +<note> +<p> +You can't select text in PostScript or .dvi files, but you usually can do +this in PDF files. Converting .dvi or PostScript files to PDF will not make +the text selectable. This is because the text itself isn't stored in the file +(it's just an image of what the text looks like), so there is no way to recover +it and put it in the PDF. You can use <em>Optical Character Recognition</em> +(OCR) software to extract the text from files if you need to. +</p> +</note> + +</page> |