In article <60gthbF1r1gffU1@mid.individual.net>, Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> writes: > Michael Poole wrote: >> I want to select individual articles from a Google Book which consists >> of (say) 500 pages and store them as separate PDF files. Typical article >> length is 6-20 pages. >> >> The book out of copyright and is available as full text with scanned >> pages as images, the whole being in PDF format. I can laboriously >> download the whole file and then save to a PDF file on my PC (Windows >> XP). I can then open the saved file with Adobe Reader v8 and select >> pages one at a time and cut and paste them into pages of an Open Office >> word processor file. >> >> There does not seem in Adobe Reader to be a way to select multiple pages >> in one go, either with a view to copying, or with a view to deleting. >> >> Has anyone else faced this problem and come up with a simple solution >> not involving procurement of expensive new software? > > > try purchasing the full version of Adobe Acrobat > > Hugh W I can't say much about Acrobat Reader (acroread) 8, but in acroread 7 what you want to do is quite simple. You first have to know which pages you want to print; because of all the front material, it's unlikely that the page numbers will match the PDF document's numbering, so you have to determine which pages from the electronic document you want to print. Next, click on "File->Print" in the menu bar. On the detail page that appears you have the option to print the whole document or a range of pages. Plus the option to print to a file. Enter the values and select the options you want, click on "OK" and you _should_ be good to go. HTH Slippery Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford