Comment 5 for bug 1973564

The way that I'm testing this is with the candidate release for Inkscape. Which is 1.2, you can grab as a snap with: snap install --candidate inkscape.

In Inkscape if you just draw on the canvas and hit save a save dialog will appear. There is a selector at the bottom right that adjust which files you see, but also which format you want to save in. So if you make your file "test.pdf" and select "Portable Document Format (*.pdf)" in the selector you should get a PDF file. Before these patches you will get a file "test.pdf" which is actually an SVG file. After the patches you'll get a "test.pdf" that is actually a PDF.