[Hidden-tech] PDF help, please

[Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com]

First, I would urge you to get off of OSX 10.5 which is way out of date and no longer receiving security updates.

I think Preview, even in 10.5, allows for simplistic PDF editing.

First step would be to make a PDF of the first page that you want in the finished document.

Then create a duplicate in the Finder of the document that you want to source the pages from.

Open the duplicate.

Go to the View menu and choose thumbnails

The sidebar showing thumbnails of the pages will appear

Drag the first page PDF into the top of the list of thumbnails to insert it as the first page

Then click once on the thumbnails of the pages that you don't want in the finished document

Hit the delete key to delete the page

(If you want to delete a range of pages, do one click on the first one, then shift-click on the last one)

You should ultimately end up with a PDF that has only the pages you want

Save it and you're done

Chris Hart
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> On Mar 5, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:
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> I need to make a sampler from a PDF that would consist of two new pages at the beginning plus 9 specific page ranges from the original. I have Adobe Reader DC and plain Adobe Reader on my OS 10.5 desktop, on my laptop but not the full Acrobat.
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> It seems that Reader won't allow me to make a subset PDF from a PDF by using the print-to-PDF option. I looked online for a solution and didn't find one.
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> Could someone either point me toward a software tool that can do this or provide me with ten minutes of access to a computer (Amherst/Northampton area) that has the full Acrobat installed?
> 
> Thanks,
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