Section J.6 Installing pdf2svg
The installation procedure uses git
. Open Git Bash and change to your root directory:
cd /c
Clone the repository into C:\pdf2svg
:
git clone https://github.com/jalios/pdf2svg-windows.git pdf2svg
Subsection J.6.1 Change PATH environment variable
We need to add the pdf2svg
program to the Windows PATH. This is similar to what is done above, in Subsection J.2.2.
pdf2svg
Open the Start menu and start typing “Edit the system environment variables”. Select this option when it becomes visible.
Click the Environment Variables button near the bottom of the dialog.
In the bottom part of the dialog labeled “System environment variables”, look for a variable named
PATH
. You may need to scroll.If you do find the
PATH
variable, select it and click the Edit... button.You should see a dialog with two text fields. Your variable name should be
PATH
.Place the cursor in the existing value and press the End key, so that the cursor moves to the back of the line. The
PATH
string is a;
-delimited list of full path names, so append the stringC:\pdf2svg\dist-32bits;
orC:\pdf2svg\dist-64bits;
(note the semicolon) to the existing value.Click OK to save changes.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed pdf2svg
.