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? > > > Go to; http://www.paologios.com/ and download PDF Splitter And Merger v1.12 - Executable Zipped It will do what you want if the file is not locked. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/

In message <47a33710$0$22806$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, Gene Y. <please.ask@?.?.invalid> writes >Go to; >http://www.paologios.com/ >and download >PDF Splitter And Merger v1.12 - Executable Zipped Many thanks for this suggestion which does indeed meet my requirements. I had already rejected "printing to PDF" as I found it could not handle whole-page image files as produced by Google Books. Of course Hugh Watkins suggestion "buy Adobe Acrobat full version" would probably also work - but it violates my explicit request for a solution which is "not involving procurement of expensive new software". -- Michael Poole 2 Highlands Glade, Manston Ramsgate, Kent CT12 5GS Tel: 01843 822008