[P1] Chopping up a PDF

[Stan Marks]

on 7/29/03 9:17 AM, Robert Crawford at robertc at clancrawford.us wrote:

> All of my manuals for work come in PDF format now and I am getting
> tired of waiting for my work laptop to boot up whenever I need anything
> (worse, it is win 2k).  I want to take just the useful portions out of
> these PDF files and make a single file.
> 
> So, out of about 12 manuals, about 900 pages each, I want to extract
> 12-14  pages from each and make a single document.  How would I go
> about doing this?

Whenever I need to do something like that, I just select and copy the text
from the PDF and paste it into a text editor. Then I can select/copy/delete
whatever I want or need for the document I'm working on.

Of course, if you only need a small part of a very large PDF file, it can be
a bit tedious... ;)

Stan Marks