In message of 1 Feb, Michael Poole <mdp@michaelpoole.org.uk> 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? Yes. There are a few PDF readers which will print any number of sequential pages. You can also find free programs to trap the output to a printer and save it as a PDF file. So print from a Reader to Print-to-PDF program. QED (Quite Easily Done) -- Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@powys.org              For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/