Keystroke for Extract Page

One feature I am missing incredibly is the keystroke for extracting a page. We have a catalog and I have to extract pages of the catalog into individual PDF files. I would like to have a key command, rather than having to return to the Apple menu each and every time I need this function. I forget, was it version 5 that last had Command-E, I miss it so much...

There isn't a direct way of doing it, but you can "hack" it using a script. Create a folder-level script with this code:
app.addMenuItem({cName: "MyExtractPages", cUser: "E&xtract Pages", cParent: "Edit",
cExec: "app.execMenuItem(\"ExtractPages\");", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target!=null)"});
This will add a new menu item to the Edit menu which you could access using the following keyboard shortcut: Alt+E, X

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What is the keyboard shortcut for extract page?

There used to be a series of keyboard shortcuts for page manipulation (and other) - using acrobat 9 till recently. Now new to Acrobat XI Pro (Windows 8.1). I can see the shortcuts for insert & delete page but not for extract page (and other). Am I missing something? The keyboard shortcuts are a must for speed and a healthy right wrist.
Thank-you for your time.

There isn't a direct way of doing it, but you can "hack" it using a script. Create a folder-level script with this code:
app.addMenuItem({cName: "MyExtractPages", cUser: "E&xtract Pages", cParent: "Edit",
cExec: "app.execMenuItem(\"ExtractPages\");", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target!=null)"});
This will add a new menu item to the Edit menu which you could access using the following keyboard shortcut: Alt+E, X

Script for extracting pages into separate documents?

Hi,
Using Acrobat 9 Pro on an XP machine, my job entails taking PDFs over 2000 pages long, sorting them into smaller documents based on their contents, and (once they are sorted) breaking down any documents longer than 25 pages into individual PDFs of 25 pages each. So, for instance, if I have a document of 110 pages, I end up with four 25-page documents and one 10-page document. Right now I do this by extracting pages 26-50 and deleting them from the original, then saving the extracted pages. Would it be possible to write a script that could accomplish the same end result? (I have CS4 Design Premium, so if anyone knows how to do this with another CS4 program, that would work also.)
Thanks!

Yes, it can done. If you want to do it yourself look in the JavaScript Reference file under the Document object, extractPages() method.

The option to extract pages from a PDF document as described does not appear for me.

Im currently running Acrobat Pro XL and the option to extract pages from a PDF document as described in the below tutorial does not appear for me. Please help!
Extracting pages from a PDF
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/extracting-pages

Typically if the extract feature is not present then the application is not Acrobat Pro.
Be well...

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Has anyone used the Extract Odd/Even Pages action for PDFs? I'm trying to use it to extract pages from a PDF and save as separate files. When I use it the action spins for a moment, says it succeeded, but I don't get any new files.

I know of the java script method, just wondering why it can't be found as standard wizard tool ;-)
I have a java script to extract pages.
Is it possible to somehow create a droplet for it (as is possible with preflight profiles)?
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Script for extracting multiple pages

Hi,
I'm working with the default "extract pages" script: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_A croJS.88.465.html
I want to modify it to extract 2 pages at a time. For example, say I start with a 6-page document. I would like the script to extract pages 1,2 as one document, then pages 3,4 and 5,6.
How would I modify the script to do this?
Thanks!

You could use a loop, but you don't need to for what you want. Do something like:
// Extract first two pages to a new file
extractPages({nStart: 0, nEnd: 1, cPath: "/F/temp/file1.pdf"});
// Extract 3rd and 4th pages
extractPages({nStart: 2, nEnd: 3, cPath: "/F/temp/file2.pdf"});
// Extract fifth and sixth pages
extractPages({nStart: 4, nEnd: 5, cPath: "/F/temp/file3.pdf"});
Obviously, you need to change the file paths.

I have a question about extracting pages. When I do the function, adobe saves the individual files as " file name space page number ", so the files look like this "filename 1.pdf", "filename 2.pdf", "filename 3.pdf". Without too many gory details, I a

I have a question about extracting pages. When I do the function, adobe saves the individual files as "<file name><space><page number>", so the files look like this "filename 1.pdf", "filename 2.pdf", "filename 3.pdf". Without too many gory details, I am using excel to concatenate some data to dynamically build a hyperlink to these extraced files. It casues me problems, however, for the space to be the the file name. Is there any way to change the default behavoir of this function to perhaps use a dash or underscore instead of a space?

No, you can't change the default naming scheme. You can do it yourself if you extract the pages using a script instead of using the built-in command.

How do I extract pages from a PDF?

I am trying to extract pages from a pdf document through Adobe XI and the command is not there through page thumbnails or through tools. What can I do? We have the current version which I verified through checking for updates.
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Message was edited by: Jim Simon

"Adobe XI" does not exist.
There is Acrobat XI (Standard or Pro).
There is Adobe Reader XI.
Acrobat XI Pro (and maybe Standard) can extract pages from a PDF.
Adobe Reader XI cannot extract pages from a PDF.
Once either application is open it is easy to determine which you have open.
The "name" is in the top most "ribbon" of the application window.
From what you've written it appears that you are using Adobe Reader XI.
Be well...

Extracting Pages and Error Message

My Adobe works great. I couldn't ask for a better product. However I have received a PDF file from a customer and I need to extract pages and insert them into another PDF. When I go to extract the pages I get an error message "Adobe Acrobat 9.0 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." and them the program shuts down. It is only with this one document and I can't find much information as to why this is happening. Any ideas?
Thank You!

This sounds like an issue with the sort order display in Windows Explorer. If you use the File > Open dialog in Acrobat the files should display correctly.
If you're previewing the PDFs in Windows Explorer try clicking the Name button underneath the toolbar to change the sort order from ascending to descending, then a single click again should display them correctly.

Acrobat Pro version 9, extract pages option greyed out

Email with pdf file is sent to two users
UserA can open pdf and extract pages
UserB cannot
Pdf is not secure
Both users have been using this feature for months and now all of a sudding UserB is unable to because the options are greyed out
Users are on Windows XP
A replair on Adobe has been done
Update on Adobe Acrobat has been done to the latest version
Yes, version is licensed and activated
Tried contacting Adobe via chat and apparently they only help with initial installation of acrobat or updates so they say they were unable to assist
Anyone out there that can assist would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Content copying is copy/paste of text, pictures, etc. Not taking
entire pages.
Because if you can extract a page, you can extract all pages. Now you
have an unprotected document, so the security would be especially
pointless.
Aandi Inston

Extract Pages- and the Split- not doing what I expect them to

I have a document created in Illustrator (CS4) which has multiple artboards. I want it split into multiple documents, one art board—> one document with only that artwork. When I use the Extract PAges… and the Split… comands to generate multiple documents, I get the multiple docs (same number of docs created as pages in original doc).
Only thing is every doc has all the artboards and all the artwork as the original doc. I could understand all the artwork being there but all the artboards also?? What's going on?
Appreciate any pointers on this.
Trying to write a JSX to run in AI but struggling so far. Thread for AI solution started here: AS) export single page PDFs from multi-artboards

I don't expect mind reading but I'l settle for careful reading
I tried to explain how pages and artboards are qualitatively different objects only to be told they are the same thing and that's all I needed to say.
I tried to explain that opening the very same file in Illustrator showed a lot more objects than it did in Acrobat. You probably don't remember because you breezed over something that you didn't think you needed to know because you were, at each stage, a step ahead of me (slow down already!).
From my second post:
I can't remember if Splitting gave enumerate files or the one file but either way ALL the artwork was in the enumerate files if they got made [.…] I ended up saving as CS3 .ai files which gives a Save artboards to seperate files option and, unlike the artboard range option on Save As PDF, it actually works.
From my third post
An artboard is not a page as far as Acrobat and Illustrator apps are concerned. I was trying to highlight the distinctly different way the two apps handle them. I can watch a one page with just one shape document in Acrobat become a 20 artboard, 40+ objects layout in Illustrator. Same document interpreted as one Page in Acrobat and 23 artboards in AI.
I was on this forum because even a manual Document Menu> Split… command is not doing what I expected with the AI generated 23pp PDF file. I expected the 23 individual 'artboards' and content to each make a separate file.
Thom Parker wrote:
I don't remember you mentioning that you re-imported the PDF files into Illustrator. This is an important detail. You also posted to an Acrobat scripting forum and never said you were not interested in an Acrobat Script. You also never explained the problem you were seeing. You were never clear.
Covered that but note Illustrator doesn't import PDF files. .ai .eps and .pdf are all native files for Illustrator and just open, sometimes with an additional dialogue to choose a page from multiple pages. It imports .dwg, .svg and that sort of thing relying on translator plugins. This is the fourth time I'm saying I should have posted in Acrobat Win or Mac not scripting, apologies I was scripting when I made OP and probably frustrated. You were more clear it's true, clearly ignoring what I was getting at in each post re artboard cf. page objects.
You see, in a PDF file each page has it's own content stream, i.e., a stream of vector graphics operators. Graphics can be drawn anywhere in the coordinate space, but the page view is clipped by a crop rectangle. So graphics can exist in the stream, but never be visible to the user because they are outside the crop. I get the impression that in Illustrator the Artboards all exist in a single coordinate space? And that the conversion to PDF places this entire coordinate space into a single content stream. Then each page would be a different crop of the same content stream. If this is the case then I believe there are PDF optimization operations in Acrobat that would fix your problem by removing all content outside the crop.
Yeah I've hacked lots of PDF files in AI. They use more than one clipping rect per page from memory. Correct, the artboards are defined in a single co-ord space it would seem — artboards are discretely and independently located on the document canvas and can even overlap each other. Yes those operations might work, I never though of that, I came across an Illustrator based solution early on in this thread. There's no conversion going on in Acrobat though I think, the file stays native PDF from AI to Acrobat and back to AI. As I've noted it's the way Acrobat displays or parses the data that in effect hides all the 'off-page' objects but open the same file in AI and it's all still there.
You know, we can't read minds, you actually have to explain what it is you need.
I didn't know it, but I needed to get a confirmation on the artboardRange property bug in Illustrator CS4 and/or a confirmation that artboards are not treated as page objects, and I ended up having to lecture you on something you may have no interest in, sorry if I've been a pain. This is part of bigger bug elsewhere that I've been trying to get resolved or around on and off for a month. Every turn another bug, it gets confusing and frustrating at times

Script to extract pages with comments

I know that what I would like to do is probably quite simple. I'm trying to automatically take a source document, and extract all pages with comments to a new document. Ideally, I would have multiple versions of this script for different purposes. I used to be a business analyst years ago, but it's been years since I've written any code, and even back then I used SQL almost exclusively--it's been about 12 years since I've written any code other than SQL queries, and back then it was highschool projects written in C++ before OOP was really a big thing. I'd attempt to read documentation myself and figure it out, but I really don't even know where to start -- my CS knowledge at this point is pretty much only conceptual. Whenever I have a similar VBscript problem using MS software, usually all I do is find an existing function and modify one or two lines to meet my needs, so I've never really had to learn how the scripts I've used work. I just tinker with existing stuff to get what I need. My past coding experience does give me an idea is to the general algorithm that I think would work. To show that I really tried with this one, I paste my guess as to how I would code this below:
1)     Create For loop for source doc.
2)     Create FOR loop for new doc
3)     Analyze page in source doc
4)     IF source page has any comments or highlighting THEN somehow note that page and increment "new doc" counter
5)     Increment source doc counter
6)     Repeat 3-5 until all pages in source doc have been analyzed
7)     Create new file
8)     Extract pages noted during step 4 to new file.
If someone could help me create the above script, I would probably be smart enough to get it to meet my needs. What I'd really like are two versions of that script. If asking for the community to simply provide me with code is not a cool thing to do, could someone link me to a good tutorial and/or existing scripts so I could try and figure it out myself?
1)     One that extracts only pages with text comments (using the typewriter tool).
2)     One that extracts pages with highlights or text comments.

In the second to last line of my OP I meant "using the 'Add text comment' tool" not "using the typewriter tool".

How do i extract pages from within a pdf document?

how do i extract pages from within a pdf document?

Hi adobespurs,
To extract pages from a PDF, you need to use Acrobat. If you don't have Acrobat, you can try it for free for 30 days. Please see www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.html for more information.
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How do I extract pages from a Secured PDF file

How do I extract pages from a Secured PDF file?

Adobe would call that hacking, and don't allow discussion of it in this forum. You should contact the copyright holder and see if they are prepared to release the password, or an unsecured document, to you. If it's something made for you like a bank statement you should tell the bank how inconvenient their choices are.

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I think you have to buy extractor for 1.99 a month to extract PDF. But I am having trouble activating it. Good luck.

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