X-Git-Url: https://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/git//home/kas/public_html/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=help%2FC%2Fconvertpdf.page;h=5152bb414a1d162469920560c47d5d16f3ca5677;hb=d9458f7a82b916efcc7bebf576388ef9bf2e8e45;hp=662b3fd9220d4f6b3ad3b85bbaaec8ac0c77db79;hpb=d19ad6f9b763a5fda2fb8ef5dab0c24bf43f8832;p=evince.git diff --git a/help/C/convertpdf.page b/help/C/convertpdf.page index 662b3fd9..5152bb41 100644 --- a/help/C/convertpdf.page +++ b/help/C/convertpdf.page @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ id="convertpdf"> - - + You can convert a document to PDF by "printing" it to a file. @@ -14,38 +13,38 @@

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Converting A Document To PDF

-You can convert documents of the following format types into PDF format: +You can convert documents of the following format types into PDF format:

Device Independent file format (.dvi)

PostScript (.ps)

-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.

- Click FilePrint and go to the + Click FilePrint and go to the General tab.

- Select Print to File and choose PDF as the + Select Print to File and choose PDF as the Output format.

- Choose a name and folder to save the file in, then click Print. + Choose a name and folder to save the file in, then click Print. 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 -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 Optical Character Recognition +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 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to extract the text from files if you need to.