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Author:  darksiege [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:50 am ]
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So at work I have adobe standard, and I am trying to figure out how to use my powers for evil. Can anyone tell me how to take a series of pages from several documents and turn them into a single document. Say... Pages 3-12 from one document and 67-69 from another document.
Author:  Müs [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:10 am ]
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I could. But I promised that I would never use my powers for evil.

Sorry.
Author:  Lex Luthor [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:58 am ]
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That sounds impossible... sorry.
Author:  NephyrS [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:08 am ]
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Not sure about Adobe Standard, but in Adobe 9 Pro it's File -> Combine -> Create Portfolio to merge PDFs.

If you want to excerpt pages, you need to cut them out first with the Document -> Extract Pages option. That lets you pull, say, pages 3-12 from one document and save them as a new PDF... Do the same for each excerpt you want, and then use the aforementioned "create PDF" option to merge them into a single document. You'll want to use the "extract pages as separate file" and make sure "delete pages after extracting" isn't checked if you want to leave your original document untouched.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:19 am ]
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I'm not familiar with a product "Adobe Standard." Do you mean Adobe Pro, or Adobe Reader?

Adobe Reader (the free one) cannot edit or create documents. It's a viewer only.

Nephyr outlined the process for Adobe Pro.
Author:  Mookhow [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:29 am ]
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http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatstandard.html
Author:  Aethien [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:21 pm ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
I'm not familiar with a product "Adobe Standard." Do you mean Adobe Pro, or Adobe Reader?

Adobe Reader (the free one) cannot edit or create documents. It's a viewer only.

Nephyr outlined the process for Adobe Pro.

You need to spend more time in the trenches. :D

But, yeah, that's always been the problem with Standard vs. Pro, for our company. People get Standard thinking they can combine pages like that, then find that they can't.

Heck, I'm gonna keep these instructions, thanks.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:44 pm ]
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Hah. I work plenty in the trenches. We apparently just have a smart enough person doing our purchasing that we don't have any copies of Standard. ;)
Author:  Vindicarre [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:00 pm ]
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I'd give something like PDFTK a try.
Author:  Rorinthas [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:48 pm ]
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Ghostscript is a decent free PDF creator too. A little clunky, but doable.
Author:  Aethien [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:56 pm ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Hah. I work plenty in the trenches. We apparently just have a smart enough person doing our purchasing that we don't have any copies of Standard. ;)

I kinda figured you were down here in the mud, too. Helps to have someone buying the right thing.
Author:  darksiege [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:12 pm ]
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thank you.
Author:  Müs [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:01 pm ]
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Importing the pages into InDesign and then repackaging a new pdf is generally how I do it.
Author:  NephyrS [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:23 pm ]
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PDF SAM (Split And Merge) is the other on I used before I had Adobe Acrobat.... It worked OK to split apart and merge PDF files.
Author:  Stathol [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:56 am ]
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Vindicarre wrote:
I'd give something like PDFTK a try.

If you're a fan of CLI, PDFTK is fine. For most people, though, you probably want the PDFTk Builder graphical front-end (includes PDFTK itself).

At one time, Foxit Phantom did everything Acrobat Pro did, and could be had for ~$60-$80. Unfortunately in the last few years they've starting breaking their product line out into "editions": i.e. express, standard, business, etc. and have jacked the prices up to Adobe levels of stupidity. I suppose it's still probably the better part of valor in terms of security, but I'm really quite pissed with them for ruining a good business strategy (i.e. don't be stupid and/or evil).

Personally, these days (on Windows) I just pretty much use Sumatra for viewing and PDFTK Builder for merging, splitting, rotating, etc. The cold hard reality is that if you need to actually edit PDF contents, you're pretty well screwed. There are some very deep, technical, low-level open-source PDF editors, but nothing that you would actually want to use for general-purpose editing as a sane individual :psyduck:
Author:  darksiege [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:14 am ]
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after messing with a few of these programs... I have decided to just wait until I am at work to do any PDF creation.
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