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Extracting Pages from a PDF/A Document

2009-08-07 11:26:33

Da Bears

Registered: Aug 7 2009

Posts: 6

How does one extract pages from a PDF/A document? Extract is greyed out for me (Version 9).

Thanks for the help.

2009-08-07 12:23:13

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2398

You can't extract pages from this type of PDF. You need to convert it first to a regular PDF.

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2009-08-07 13:22:42

Da Bears

Registered: Aug 7 2009

Posts: 6

How do you convert it to a regular PDF?

2009-08-09 02:32:08

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2398

File - Save As - PDF

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2009-08-09 12:41:51

Da Bears

Registered: Aug 7 2009

Posts: 6

I did that, but it still opens with "you are viewing this in PDF/A" and extracting pages is still greyed out. Any other ideas?

2009-08-10 10:51:26

lkassuba

Registered: Jun 28 2007

Posts: 3636

Try turning off Edit > Preferences > Documents category "View documents in PDF/A mode" never. Or, if you have the Pro. version of Acrobat you can use the Preflight tool to remove the PDF/A information from the file.

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2010-11-23 00:01:40

seanyeap

Registered: Nov 22 2010

Posts: 1

Hi lkassuba,
Thanks for the useful and great tips. Looking at it is simply easy however, it is craking my head when I was finding the solution, thanks a million.

2010-11-23 00:20:15

davidjerk

Registered: Nov 23 2010

Posts: 8

Hi lkassuba,
You are such a genius to figure this out, thanks a lot.