</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
- </license>
+ </license>
</info>
<title>Converting A Document To PDF</title>
<p>
-You can convert documents of the following format types into PDF format:
+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 Document Viewer and "printing" the document as a PDF file.
+This works by opening the file in Document Viewer and "printing" the document as a PDF file.
</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
- Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq> and go to the
+ 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 PDF as the
+ Select <gui>Print to File</gui> and choose PDF as the
<gui>Output format</gui>.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
- Choose a name and folder to save the file in, then click <gui>Print</gui>.
+ Choose a name and folder to save the file in, then click <gui>Print</gui>.
The PDF will be saved in the folder you chose.
</p>
</item>
Note:
</p>
<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>
+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>