PDF24.org Support Forum

[RicardoSwe]

I'm a new user here.

I am trying to separate four pages from a ~320 page PDF file. In PDF24 I can delete the unwanted pages, but when I try to then save the remaining four pages, the saved file only has a single page (the first one). I can not find out what I am doing wrong...

Any help??

[pdf24]

Try to print the PDF file on PDF24 PDF Printer to create a new PDF file. This crates a new PDF files which should work.

[RicardoSwe]

Well, printing the file worked. But the steps involved are convoluted. The program should be able to save a PDF file directly.

The steps:
* open large PDF in PDF24
* highlight unwanted pages, right click & delete (direct deletion is not available as a command)
* print resulting pages - this opens the new file in PDF24, alongside the edited file. The file title is something like "PDF24 print". No option is given to name the file.
* close the "original" edited file
* save the newly printed file, going through a step of confirming the PDF24 save settings, changing the name from what was just "printed".

This is versus what should be:
* open large PDF in PDF24
* delete unwanted pages
* save the resulting file


Any chance saving directly will be fixed?

[pdf24]

Some PDF files are demanged or some other incorrects are encoded. PDF24 stops. Re-Creation of the PDF file is needed.

Well you can do these short steps:

* open the PDF24 Editor
* open large PDF in any PDF Reader, not PDF24 and print resulting pages there on PDF24
* save the newly printed file

[pdf24]

The short steps

* open large PDF in PDF24
* delete unwanted pages
* save the resulting file

will work if the input PDF file is correct.