Chopping up pdfs

KingL

Hi all

I have a big travel guide in (locked) PDF. I want to chop out some of the maps, put them all on one/two pages, and print it out (i.e. without all the intervening verbage).

Is there an easier way of doing this than taking screenprints and then cropping/sizing/shuffling the results in Photoshop?

The Rasta-ising goes all blurry if I open PDFs directly in Photoshop.

I don't really mind what the output format is as long as I can print it.

TIA...



p.s. note that I'm not looking to just take individual pages out of a long PDF, but to take small areas of some pages out

steve1980

Are you making small pictures bigger? When you say locked, I assume you mean password protected?

KingL

I can preserve the size or make them a little smaller, I don't mind.

It's not password protected, but I can't select individual sections, just the whole thing (Cntr + A). But I'm using pdf readers, so I guess that's not surprising!

aerostar

You could try converting to word format (.doc) however not sure if they work with locked pdf, it will cost nothing to try.

http://www.pdftoword.com/

http://www.hellopdf.com/

http://www.convertpdftoword.net/

steve1980

You'll need the full version of Acrobat or if you have Photoshop you can open up the pages in that, then cut the photo and place on a new document.

I can do this for you if it's not too much.

spenderdave

Any of the (free or otherwise) PDF printer applications can do this. I use FreePDF (http://freepdfxp.de/ - website is in German but the download has an English manual), but there are plenty of others. Just open the document, then print the pages you want to a new PDF via the PDF Printer.

KingL

steve1980 wrote: »

You'll need the full version of Acrobat or if you have Photoshop you can open up the pages in that, then cut the photo and place on a new document.

I can do this for you if it's not too much.

I have photoshop (6) but can't open the pdf in it
File> Open: Generic PDR Parser: There was an error processing this document
File >import> PDF document: Counld not complete the import command because the file-format module cannot parse the file

I don't have the full Acrobat. Thanks for the offer to do them, but there are a lot of them. Worst case, I can take screengrabs in windows clipboard then fiddle with the bitmaps in Photoshop. I was just hoping for an easier way.


@aerostar - thanks. No reply from pdftoword.com, but I'll give the others a go later on.

@spenderdave - I obviously didn't make myself clear. I want to take the top left quarter of page 2 and put it on the same page as the bottom one third of page 6 and the top right one eighth of page 12 and the bottom left quarter of page 13, etc...

JasX

Using adobe reader (free -I'm on version 8.1.2 ) just zoom into the map you want to print so it fills your screen.

Then click print and choose "print range" -'current view' and "Page scaling" -'Fit to printable area' and -auto rotate and center

simples