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Cutting and Keeping certain pages

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2010-05-28 10:55:32
scottsoo9
Registered: May 28 2010
Posts: 6

I have a report in Adobe that is 1600 pages. The report comes from our accounting program and then we put it into notepad and from there put it into Adobe. Each page consists of contract numbers, task numbers and the money expended.I have to cut that report up and send it to different branches of the company. The Engineering department gets certain pages, Technical part gets certain pages, President gets the whole thing and so forth. Currently, I have to go through each page and bookmark each contract (around 200 of them). Then I individually delete groups of pages that are not suppose to go to each branch. In all, I end up making 7 different copies of this report. It takes me around a day in total to do this. I know this is probably the worst way to go about this, if anyone has any suggestions on how to make this process more efficient, I would greatly appreciate it.

scott white

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-05-29 02:49:25
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
By the sound of it, you're using the only method available - unless the original document has a way to print the versions for you, cutting out page ranges is all you can do. If the report is always the same size and the versions are always the same page ranges, you could use batch processing in Acrobat Pro to automate the cutting operations, but not in Std.

There are a number of plugins that can save a set of bookmarks into a file, then re-apply them to another document - so again if they're always the same, that would save you a lot of time. See http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/acrobat/
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2010-06-23 09:52:07
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scottsoo9
Registered: May 28 2010
Posts: 6
I have still been thinking on how to improve this process and have yet to come up with anything. Are there any other ideas or is this not possible? Thanks

scott white

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2010-06-23 09:59:32
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scottsoo9
Registered: May 28 2010
Posts: 6
and about bookmarking, my pdf files have on the right hand corner, it says for example
Project Number 1433BB. THe 1433 is the contract number and the BB is the task number. All I want bookmarked is the main 1433 task.

scott white

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2010-06-30 23:11:49
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TonyPotter
Registered: Feb 1 2010
Posts: 85
Acrobat can do that work but I think it is not an efficient way. Maybe you can try PDF Splitter, which can help you delete and keep PDF pages in a more efficient extent. Be well!

I will try my best to help you in PDF converison fields, objectively and Neutral.

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