# Recovering the pcb outline svg from a .fzz file

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**Created:** [June 28, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/recovering-the-pcb-outline-svg-from-a-fzz-file/7306 "2019-06-28T21:18:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/user_avatar/forum.fritzing.org/vanepp/32/4426_2.png) [@vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/vanepp)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/recovering-the-pcb-outline-svg-from-a-fzz-file/7306/1 "2019-06-28T21:18:59Z")

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I recently needed to recover the svg for a board outline with only the fzz file. Because the source svg is in the fzz file. Since I had to do this I figured I document how to do it for other people.

1. un zip the .fzz file to get the .fz file which is standard xml so edit the fz file with a text editor.

2. search for the text ’ instance moduleIdRef=“BoardLogoImageModuleID” ’

3. select the data after ’ \<property name=“shape” value=" ’ til ’ \</svg\> ’ and copy that text in to a new svg file.

4. You now have an svg file but is quoted, so you need to unquote it to create a svg file that a svg editor will accept it. So edit the file and do the following substitutions (these are for vi or vim)

edit: Coming back to do this again I just noticed that the helpful forum software removed the actual xml commands below and substituted the replacement values (which is why the substitutions were identical.) I will try prefomatted mode to try and correct this …

```
5) :1,$s/&quot;/"/g which substitutes all lines (there is currently only one line but later there will be lines) that is the 1.$ part. The s/ substitutes &quot; to " the / ends the substitution, and the g causes substitution for all instances on the line. This should let you modify the command for your editor.

6) :1,$s/&gt;/>/g to do the greater thans (>)

7) :1,$s/&lt;/</g to do the less thans. Then (otherwise the ones above screw up!)

8) :1,$s/&#10/\r/g to replace the quoted newlines with a new line 

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which unusually for me, seems to have worked correctly 🙂 Hopefully the correct vi commands will make it easier to adjust the search patterns for your editor of choice, unlike substitute " for " as was there originally. Sorry about that!

Now if you save the result you can feed it to an svg editor.

Peter