Re: Selecting articles from a Google Book

In message of 1 Feb, Michael Poole <mdp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I want to select individual articles from a Google Book which consists 
> of (say) 500 pages and store them as separate PDF files. Typical article

> length is 6-20 pages.
> 
> The book out of copyright and is available as full text with scanned 
> pages as images, the whole being in PDF format. I can laboriously 
> download the whole file and then save to a PDF file on my PC (Windows 
> XP). I can then open the saved file with Adobe Reader v8 and select 
> pages one at a time and cut and paste them into pages of an Open Office 
> word processor file.
> 
> There does not seem in Adobe Reader to be a way to select multiple pages

> in one go, either with a view to copying, or with a view to deleting.
> 
> Has anyone else faced this problem and come up with a simple solution
> not involving procurement of expensive new software?

Yes.

There are a few PDF readers which will print any number of sequential
pages.

You can also find free programs to trap the output to a printer and save
it as a PDF file.

So print from a Reader to Print-to-PDF program.

QED (Quite Easily Done) 

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