Files — Janvas

Janvas has three formats of its own with the same core — the document — and reads four others. This section explains what happens when you open each format, what goes into the files it writes, and how to print to scale.

15.1

Opening a document

All the ways to open a file.

15.2

Janvas documents

The document, the package, and the old JSON.

15.3

SVG

What an opened SVG becomes, and the case of the SVG exported with the data.

15.4

PDF

What an opened PDF becomes.

15.5

DXF

The entities read, the units, the scale, the page.

15.6

janvas 7 documents

What is read from a janvas 7 document.

15.7

Dropping files on the canvas

What happens to each type of file dropped on the canvas.

15.8

Saving

Where you save, the format dialog, what happens afterward.

15.9

Exporting SVG

Area, units, hidden objects, symbols, data, fonts, decimals, formatting.

15.10

Printing

The two print modes, the scale, the limits.

Files Open, import, save, export, print