3 If you can't see the SVG on Wikipedia/Commons.1.1 Convert a single page of a pdf to.Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps/Archive 5#PDF map conversion to SVG.Parts of this were copied and adapted from this discussion: Some parts are in question-and-answer format, as in FAQs.

Go open source and free software! This tutorial assumes familiarity with installing programs and downloading, saving, opening and uploading files. It takes only a few seconds to convert a PDF to an SVG, using nothing but free software.

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Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/PDF conversion to SVG/Adobe Illustrator.

To convert using Adobe Illustrator go to the following two pages: This page covers conversion using free tools.

Now here is some info on how to convert PDF image to SVG images. Just leave a request for help or advice there. Finally, Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop can create, extract, or edit almost any image. Click that key, and then open an image editor and click 'paste' (usually in the edit menu). The PrintScreen key on your keyboard is a good last resort, too. Then paste it into any image editor for conversion to other image formats. You can also select almost any area of a PDF document with Adobe Reader's cropping and selection tools, and then copy that selected area by right-clicking it. Then use the image editor to save the image in any format. A popular, free image editor good for beginners using Microsoft Windows is IrfanView (if you use GNU/Linux you may have GIMP in your distribution).

By using Adobe Reader many images in PDF documents can be right-clicked, copied, and then pasted into any image editor. Before learning how to convert PDF images to SVG images it may be useful to learn how to extract images from PDF documents and create PNG, GIF, and JPG images.

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