PDF question - is it possible to break a multi-page PDF file into separate PDF files

[udonoogen]

if you help me out i get brownie points at work.

basically we get huge pdf files and we want to chop up the multi-page document into different several different packets (each having x number of pages from the document). any way i can chop up the pdf file? does acrobat do this? thanks!

Don

 

[LiLithTecH]

Acrobat will allow you to break up the PDF file provided there are
no SECURITY settings set (i.e. Open & Editing, Displaying locked pages, etc..)

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: udonoogen
basically we get huge pdf files and we want to chop up the multi-page document into different several different packets (each having x number of pages from the document). any way i can chop up the pdf file? does acrobat do this? thanks!

Don

If by "Acrobat" you mean the full version of Acrobat, which is about $300.00 or more, yes it can do that as long as the author of the original document has not locked the security of it.

If you are talking about Acrobat reader, the answer is no. Acrobat reader can only read. It cannot modify.

You can get ghostscript and ghostview, which are free.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

They are very powerful programs. After having installed ghostscript and ghostview, you can open a PDF file using ghostview and then convert it to many different formats.
To keep the original information intact, you can convert to postscript. Then, you can run the extract command from the list of tools in ghostview, which lets you select a portion of the document and save.
You can also use ghostview (along with ghostscript) to convert postscript back to pdf.

 

[Mal007colm]

Or you can install CutePDF a free program it sets up in your printer folder. So open the PDf in acrobat choose Print, select CutePDF as the printer and then just select the pages you want and you can save them individually as a PDF file anywhere you want.