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Subject: Printing A List of Pages
Posted by: Great One
- [151126410] Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 12:56
Here's the basic problem. Each day I get 500 page PDF file, and I go through and print about 50 random pages from it for reporting purposes. This gets a bit tedious to "print current page" or to enter the range of pages. My theory is that I should be able to give a list of pages (I could cut/paste it in each day). Say print "1, 4, 16, 19, 22, 45" and it would just print all at once. Any ideas? I just had a thought that maybe somewhere in Adobe PDF that I could make a new PDF file with just those pages --- and then print that entire new PDF. |
| 1 | Perm Dude
ID: 2811561611
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 12:58
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You can specify what pages you want to print when the print box opens up in Adobe. That's probably the easiest.
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| 2 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 13:12
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The only flexibility I see there is a range... i.e. "print pages 11-24" -- but I can't do a list of random pages.
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| 3 | Perm Dude
ID: 2811561611
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 13:14
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If you plug in a string you should be good, separated by commas.
I.E., "1-2, 5, 12-15, 55, 57, 59"
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| 4 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 13:48
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Yeah, I remember printing like that previously (and its available using say Microsoft Word) but not from Adobe PDF's The only options are -- All, Current View, Current Page or Pages From ___ to ___ So if thats the case, maybe I need to focus on getting just those pages out of PDF and then the printing process.
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| 5 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 13:51
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You'd think with all the good things Adobe (Acrobat I guess?) can do, it should be able to come up with a solution. I wonder if I couldn't do a macro of some sort like I can do in excel... hmm.
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| 6 | Perm Dude
ID: 2811561611
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 13:51
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Hmm. The last option is just two boxes? Are you using Adobe 8? If not (for the latter) maybe you want to update your Adobe to the latest version.
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| 7 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 14:16
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Its Adobe 6.0 and unfortunately its at work, so it won't be updated til... well we are still using Office 2003, so?! haha...
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| 8 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 14:18
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I found a way to export it to Word, where I could then use my list -- 1, 4, 7-12, 18 etc But the formatting goes haywire once it gets to Word.
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| 9 | ¤ Mario LeMoose ¤
ID: 571158248
Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 10:58
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GO: Would installing the free Adobe Reader suffice? (If I understand your opening message correctly, you want to print hard copies of select pages only, not necessarily create a new PDF from an existing document.)
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| 10 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 11:08
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Only problem is this is a work computer and I can't really download anything, won't let me make those types of changes.
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| 11 | Perm Dude
ID: 281125249
Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 11:23
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Any chance you can convince a network administrator to upgrade your Adobe? Sounds like the lack of an upgrade is affecting your ability to do your job.
The upgrade is free--just takes a few minutes to do.
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| 12 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 11:25
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perhaps, perhaps... I can do it, but certainly it would speed things up. I'll probably test it out tonight at home before I go through the effort.
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