Quartz: Open page 2/3/... of a PDF

I want to load a PDF file using Quartz Composer. The Image Downloader patch only loads page 1, so how do I get to the other pages?

For future reference, I've found that the Movie Downloader plays PDFs as a sequence of pages, so I'm working on a way to separate out specific pages from it.
Any other methods are still welcome though.

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Hi aK'
Nice, memorable user name!
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1...........................
At work, I often have to deal with PDF files (of several hundred pages each) and have to keep shifting from one PDF to another. If I leave a PDF file on page 372, open another file, and return to the first file, I am sent to page 1. Why on Earth do I have to find my position in the PDF file manually each time I return to the PDF?
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2.........................
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"Life without music would be a mistake"
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:11:04 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I can't open my ebooks which are in PDF
I'm having the same problem and I'm in my third iteration with Adobe Tech Support via e-mail. They couldn't fix it and sent me to this forum to see if anyone else had fixed the problem themselves.
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Adobe's Digital Editions now prevents me from reading 4 out of 7 of my e-books. Moreover, I can't believe there's no one at Adobe that can fix this problem. Just as surprising is how little they seem to care.
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