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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="convertpdf" xml:lang="fr">
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<link type="guide" xref="index#tips"/>
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<desc>You can convert a document to PDF by "printing" it to a file.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="2.30.3" version="0.1" date="2010-07-26" status="review"/>
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<name>Phil Bull</name>
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<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
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<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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<title>Converting A Document To PDF</title>
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You can convert documents of the following format types into PDF format:
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<item><p>Device Independent file format (.dvi)</p></item>
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<item><p>PostScript (.ps)</p></item>
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This works by opening the file in Document Viewer and "printing" the document as a PDF file.
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Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq> and go to the
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<gui>General</gui> tab.
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Select <gui>Print to File</gui> and choose PDF as the
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<gui>Output format</gui>.
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Choose a name and folder to save the file in, then click <gui>Print</gui>.
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The PDF will be saved in the folder you chose.
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You can't select text in PostScript or .dvi files, but you usually can do
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this in PDF files. Converting .dvi or PostScript files to PDF will not make
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the text selectable. This is because the text itself isn't stored in the file
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(it's just an image of what the text looks like), so there is no way to recover
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it and put it in the PDF. You can use <em>Optical Character Recognition</em>
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(OCR) software to extract the text from files if you need to.