I have been sent a massive pdf with over 500 pages, of which I only need the final 30 or so. Is there a way I can save just the last pages as a seperate pdf document?
2 Answers
The easiest way is to install a PDF printer like PDFCreator (As Glutanimate already mentioned)
Example with PDF-X Change Viewer and PDFCreator
- Download & install a PDF printer (there are many alternatives which work similar)
- Open your PDF with your favority software like Adobe Reader or PDF-XChange Viewer
- Open the print dialog
- Choose your newly installed Printer
- Head down to the section where you choose the pages you want
- Click print and you will be asked for a destination and file name
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I just tried doing the same in Foxit Reader and it works in the same way using its inbuilt PDF printer. You could try looking in your reader print menu for a similar option.– BrianAJun 15, 2013 at 14:54
This can be done using the commandline tool PDFtk (= the PDF Toolkit).
Example:
pdftk A=in1.pdf cat A130-160 output out1.pdf
As suggested in other answers, "printing" the required pages to a PDF printer is a good option. My favorite for this is doPDF.
Edited:
In case you don't like commandline tools, you can control PDFtk using Dirk Paehl's GUIPDFTK:
Just enter the page number range as "CAT from:" and "CAT to:".
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