We currently generate many large documents. We no longer physically print these documents but convert them to PDF. The finance department would like to split these large pdf's, by department, to send to the appropriate bookkeeper for verification before we post the final numbers.
Splitting the pdf by hand to the 74 or so separate departments is too labor intensive and also error prone. Is there a simple way to do this from within Adobe Acrobat or will we need to purchase separate "splitter" software.
thank you in advance,
hag
PS our large context equals 400 pdf pages to 17,000 pdf pages
Advanced -> Document Processing > Batch ProcessingNew Sequence > Select Commands > 'Execute JavaScript' > Add > EditPut the following in:
/* Extract Pages to Folder */
try {
this.extractPages
({
nStart: 3,
nEnd: 5,
cPath: "/C/Documents and Settings/.../end_file1.pdf"
});
this.extractPages
({
nStart: 6,
nEnd: 10,
cPath: "/C/Documents and Settings/.../end_file2.pdf"
});
} catch (e) { console.println("Aborted: " + e) }
And It'll extract pages 2-4, 5-9 (page 1 = 0) and put them in the files you specify.
As I said, I use a perl script to write the Java for this, but you could use other methods - it could be done with a mail merge. You just need to know the first and last page of each section.
This may require some knowledge of basic programming - I'd be interested to hear if others have simpler solutions.