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[rowyn]

Does anyone know an easy way to email one page from a .pdf using Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0? For reasons too annoying to explain, I often need to email a single page, or a handful of pages, out of one ginorourmous pdf or other. Despite much clicking around inside the reader, I have not discerned any decent way to do this. The snapshot tool almost works, except that the resulting snapshots seem to be (a) illegible and/or (b) truncated. >.

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

There are multiple ways to accomplish this.

Method One: Get a splitter:

Here's a shareware splitter.

Here's one with a free trial, then $49.

Method Two is a bit more "techie":

Create a new printer, and check the "print to file" attribute. Then print a single page of your PDF to that printer; it will ask for the file name. That file can be sent to the customer, but will only print on some printers as it's already been "translated". However, you can often set up Microsoft outputs (more generic) to act as a printer, though it's a bit tricky. Let me know if you want to pursue this.

Method Three is brute force:

Most printer/scanners (now in the $100-$300 range) come with scan-to-PDF capability. Print the page you want, then scan it back into a different PDF -- then email that.

I actually use this method myself; I've probably sent a couple of thousand pages of PDFs in the last year or two., My Canon MP830 does an excellent job; I've bought nearly identical machines for home, office, and a couple of traveling locations. Your workplace would benefit from this capability, I think.

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[rowyn]

Printing stuff so it can be scanned makes my teeth hurt. >.<

I actually have an option slightly better than this: I can do a virtual print to our electronic document storage system, and then email that file, but I was hoping for a quicker and more elegant system. I think the "print to pdf-making program" sounds like the best option, if I can get IT to go along with it.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Printing stuff so it can be scanned makes my teeth hurt.

Understood -- and you're using Method One already, or at least a variant of it.

The only benefit of the last option is that you can also include other documents that are not available electronically.

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[argonel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, new thought. If you have a new enough printer. You may be able to print to a message store on the printer, then have the printer send it back to you as a pdf. This works quite well on the canon imagerunner line of multifunction devices. Wit hthe newer ones I could even log into the printer's internal webpage to tell it to e-mail me the pdf.