If you’d like to extract multiple pages and place them all in a single new document, hold the Shift key and select multiple sequential pages from the thumbnail sidebar, or hold the Command key to select multiple non-sequential pages.
In our example, we’re just extracting a single page from the PDF. Preview will jump to that page and display it on the right of the window (if you weren’t already navigated to the page previously) and the page’s thumbnail will be surrounded by a gray box in the Thumbnail sidebar. Find the page you want to extract and click on its thumbnail to select it.
You’ll see a sidebar slide in to the left of your PDF document showing each page individually from top to bottom. You can also switch to Thumbnail view by using the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-2. With Preview selected, head to the OS X Menu Bar and select View > Thumbnails. This is the same view that is useful for deleting or rearranging pages in a PDF document. We’ll start with the New Document method first so that you can understand what’s happening with this process, but if you’re in a hurry, just jump to the second section, below.įor both methods of extracting one or more pages from a PDF, our first step is to change to the Thumbnail view in Preview, which will let us select a single page. The second, let’s unofficially label it the “New Document Method,” is a bit more detailed, but lets you modify how and where the new file is saved, along with some other potentially important options. The first, something we call the “Drag and Drop Method,” is quick and dirty, but doesn’t give you much control over how the file is saved or modified. There are two methods for extracting one or more pages from a PDF document in Preview. This is a huge 361-page document, and we want to extract just a single page - page 235, which lists Sabres career records - so that we can email it to someone without having to send them the entire document. So read on to see how you can extract one or more pages from an existing PDF and save them as a new document.įor this tutorial, we’re using a sample PDF of the Buffalo Sabres 2014-2015 Media Guide.
But what if you want to extract a page from a PDF and save it as its own separate document? It’s not quite clear how to do that in Preview, but that’s what we’re here for. And using Preview to view PDFs is simple, too, with the intuitive interface making it fairly easy to change your viewing preferences, combine documents, and even rearrange existing pages.
How is it more intuitive to have to go back into Finder, find the file, and then rename it.The OS X Preview app is a great way to view PDFs on your Mac, to the point where many users prefer it over more powerful software like Adobe Acrobat. I've never used the Thumbnails icon or list, just used the buttons on the toolbar. YOU CAN'T DO THE SAME THING IN DC IN THE SAME OR FEWER KEYBOARD STROKES AS YOU CAN IN XI. I'm not shouting, just extremely peeved by the way you are attempting to 'sell' a feature that is anything but.
In XI I could click the 'Extract Page' button on the toolbar, from there I could use the keyboard (No mouse required) to select the folder and filename. Therefore, it DOES NOT, take LESS clicks to achieve the same result, it takes MORE. The procedure you outlined above in DC, PREVENTS me from also selecting the filename on OS X. It gives you all sorts of improved functionality over the old Thumbnail panel.ĪND, it takes LESS clicks to extract a page in DC as it does in XI – but it’s now more intuitive.Ĭlick OK to dialog box (making you duplicate the info you just entered) Organize Pages is definitely where we’d rather you go. I've also now found a printing bug which is a complete showstopper for me and my staff - I'll post that in another thread, but suffice to say if this printing bug can be solved I'll be cancelling by subscription because all Acrobat DC seems to do is to create more work, not less. Please try right clicking a thumbnail on a MAC, not Windows, then select the 'Extract Pages' option from the menu: all you get is the Extract toolbar, it's no different to clicking on Extract in the main toolbar - well it is different, you have to right click then left click, so it's actually more work than just clicking on Extract in the main toolbar.Īnd to confirm: All you get on OS X is an option to select a FOLDER, not a FILENAME.Ĭan someone in the know, confirm whether or not, ON OS X, it is possible to extract a single page from a multi-page PDF, and save it with a customised filename all in one process - like I used to be able to do with Acrobat Pro. Really? EXACTLY the same as in previous versions?