On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:50 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > mail.k wrote: > > Is it possible to make a .pdf of a specific chapter or section of a long > > document (not the whole document)? > > > > regards, > > eran > > Method 1: Stick everything except the desired part in comments (and hope > this does not screw up the pagination, or leave cross-references > undefined). > > Method 2: Make a PDF of the entire document, then use Ghostscript to > produce a PDF of selected pages, as in the following (which extracts > pages 3 through 5 inclusive from sourcefile.pdf): > > gsc -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=5 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf > -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE sourcefile.pdf > > Method 3: I use a PDF printer driver (PDFCreator) that, like most > printer drivers, can output selected pages. So I can print the document > to it from Acrobat Reader and extract just the pages I want.
Method 4: pdftk sourcefile.pdf cat 130-140 output test.pdf You can find pdftk here: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ It can do lots of other stuff, including merging pdfs, splitting pdfs, reading, inserting and changing metadata, and lots more. I first heard about it on this list. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
