Preview crashes on save of edited pdf

Hi,
I'm trying to delete pages in a large (500+ pages) pdf. It's a public-domain ebook from Google that I only need parts of for my research and I'm trying to minimize storage space and reading. I can delete the pages in Preview (select, delete) but every time I try to save the document Preview freezes and I lose my work. I've tried saving the original file and saving as a duplicate and neither was sucessful. I've tried about five times now, even making sure the only other program running at the time was Preview and that seems to have had no effect. The file is saved to my hard drive and leaves me with the spinning rainbow wheel each time. I can post the kernel log, but it's huge and I don't know which part has the right information.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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