i am sorry i cant help you with a Lyx solution, but here is another solution if you are using linux you can probably split out and then recombine the pdf using pdftk http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
another tool that i find helpful for this sort of thing is flpsed, http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/ i often end up printing to ps and minor editing, and then recombining the pdf, afterward hope this helps joe Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I added one line to my inside title page of a 190 page book but the > resulting PDF -- according to diff has over 3000 changes. > > I think the changes have to do with reconverting images and dates of > images (although originals are same). > > Is there an easy way I can manually edit (maybe with vi) the PDF so I only > change the single page? > > I tried to modify between a "/Type /Page" markers in the files. But didn't > work. > > I don't want to regen entire document since I don't want to have any > content changes (or page numbering changes) in the printed book. > > Any suggestions? > > Any tools that don't required Java? > > Thanks >