On 25/06/12 18:29, (Ted Harding) wrote:
On 25-Jun-2012 16:58:29 Bev Nicolson wrote:
Evince is great for what it does, imo, but you can't extract pages with it. Does anyone round here know of a good alternative to the full-fat, all singing all dancing but not very cheap Adobe? Does such a thing exist?
Bev.
Bev, Ah!! After reading your query, I tried using evince to print selected pages to file as PDF (Create a PDF Document"), and got the message "Generating PDF is not supported"! (Despite the fact that evince lures you all the way to the "Print" button is if it was supported).
However, you can print the selected pages from the PDF to a PostScript file, and then convert that to PDF (e.g. using ps2pdf or pstopdf). But it seems you can only get a range of pages (e.g. 3-5), and not a bunch of independently selected pages (e.g.1,3-4, 7).
Depending on how much you want out of the pdf this website may help. http://www.pdftoword.com/ I used it a lot earlier this year to get an editable version of some documents.
OK so you end up with a word document but you can just cut and paste that as you wish. Depending on how busy the site is you get a reply in anything from mins to hours.
If you're going to be doing lots, i.e. hundreds of files, then download the free trial.
Nev