On Thu, 18 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:50 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
mail.k wrote:
Is it possible to make a .pdf of a specific chapter or section of a long
document (not the whole document)?
regards,
eran
Method 1: Stick everything except the desired part in comments (and hope
this does not screw up the pagination, or leave cross-references
undefined).
Method 2: Make a PDF of the entire document, then use Ghostscript to
produce a PDF of selected pages, as in the following (which extracts
pages 3 through 5 inclusive from sourcefile.pdf):
gsc -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=5 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf
-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE sourcefile.pdf
Method 3: I use a PDF printer driver (PDFCreator) that, like most
printer drivers, can output selected pages. So I can print the document
to it from Acrobat Reader and extract just the pages I want.
Method 4:
pdftk sourcefile.pdf cat 130-140 output test.pdf
You can find pdftk here:
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
It can do lots of other stuff, including merging pdfs, splitting pdfs,
reading, inserting and changing metadata, and lots more. I first heard about
it on this list.
May I suggest that you add these methods/tips to this page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF
Or, if this subject is complicated enought to deserve a page of it's own,
how about creating this page
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/HowToIncludePDF
(I'm not happy with the page name, but that's life...)
sincere regards
/Christian
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