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Select the page of the PDF you are interested in if the PDF is a multi-page document (Illustrator will only open one page at a time). Go to File > Save As (Shift + Ctrl + S). From the Format drop-down menu, select SVG (*.SVG). Save As. In the resulting dialog box: Under SVG Profiles, choose a profile (usually SVG 1.0 or SVG 1.1).
Now here is some info on how to convert PDF image to SVG images. This page covers conversion using free tools. To convert using Adobe Illustrator go to the following two pages: Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/PDF conversion to SVG/Adobe Illustrator; Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve/Archive/Jul 2008#Image:APISmap1.pdf
The fix is to open the SVG file in a text editor, find the <image> element, locate "image/jpg", change it to "image/jpeg" and re-save. At right is an example of this problem. The Commons SVG Checker looks for this problem; see Commons:Commons:Commons SVG Checker/KnownBugs#Checks for details.
SVG images are an exception: Being vector images, they have no pixels, just instructions on how to draw the image that can be scaled up indefinitely, and the "image size" in the file description is arbitrary.
I created this image as a replacement for a PNG (It's summary read: "This image is a temporary placeholder for articles (mostly those utilizing the table from Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tables) which still need a picture to illustrate them. You can help by uploading an image for any of the articles listed below under "File links"." - Written ...
MediaWiki converts the SVG image to a PNG image. The SVG format is the working format of the stored image so that people can more easily convert images for use in different languages. If you're using a browser other than Internet Explorer, just keep clicking the image and you'll eventually get the full-size image, which will be the SVG version ...
This includes image touch-up as well as image re-creation (e.g. conversion to the SVG format). For a list of images needing cleanup, see Category:Image files for cleanup. For a list of images needing miscellaneous attention, see Wikipedia:Pictures needing attention. For more information on image cleanup, see Wikipedia:Images for cleanup.
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