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+<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>