Assembling the Package - Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction - page 76

document and drag them to the other document. You see a vertical bar displayed on the Pages pane
showing the insertion location.
Extracting Content
To quickly create several separate documents from a single document, you can use Acrobat's Page
Extraction feature. After selecting the page or pages to extract in the Pages pane, choose Document >
Extract Pages to open the Extract Pages dialog box, listing the selected page or pages. Select an extraction
option and click OK to close the dialog box and extract the content (Figure 7.2).
There are three ways in which to perform an extraction. The default method is to create a separate
document from the selected pages, without affecting the original document's contents. You can also choose
Delete Pages After Extraction, which removes the selected content from the original document
permanently, and places it in a unique document. For either of these methods, the extracted content is
named with “Pages from” prepended to the original file's name.
Figure 7.1 Visually insert pages from one document into another
Figure 7.2 Choose a method of extraction in the dialog box
Alternatively, you can Extract Pages As Separate Files to create a PDF file for each page specified in
the dialog box. When you choose this method, first select a storage location in the Browse for Folder dialog
box. After extraction, each extracted page is named using the original file's name with the page number
appended to it and saved in the folder specified.
If you want to extract noncontiguous pages, first reorder the pages so the extracted content is listed
consecutively, and then proceed with the extraction.