E-Mailing PDF files.

How do I mail someone, just one page of a 15 meg service manual in adobe acrobat reader? Do I have to convert it, & what's the best way to"compress it"? Thanks, Dani.

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Dani
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You could use something like PDF995 (from ... wait for it ...

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to print the single page to a new pdf file. The free version is ad-supported; it opens your browser onto one of their product pages. Relatively painless. The "full" version is pretty inexpensive.

If the orginal pdf doesn't allow printing extracts or single pages (some don't) you *might* be able to "print" the whole thing as a new pdf file and print the one page from that new file.

If you do Linux there are other options.

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Rich Webb   Norfolk, VA
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Rich Webb

Further to the other replies, you'll find that the .pdf format is more compact than most other means of sending the same material.

And if you try to (say) zip the .pdf, you usually don't make it more compact.

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budgie

Yes and it's quite simple!

Open the PDF file with Acrobat Click on File, Print Choose page number from and to, to be the page you want Choose Print to file option Input a file name (preserve the .prn extention) OK

Then, attach this prn file to your email.

Regards Lee

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glog

it"? Thanks,

Open the PDF file with Acrobat Click on File, Print Choose page number from and to, to be the page you want Choose Print to file option Input a file name (preserve the .prn extention) OK

Then, attach this prn file to your email.

Regards Lee

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glog

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Bart Bervoets

Very poor/misleading advice.

The .pdf format, specifically intended for electronic document-transfer, is about as 'efficient' (i.e. compressed) as it can reasonably be made: just 'attach' to the e-mail.

A .prn would be much larger, and, worse, would be in the format produced by the printer-driver the original machine was set up to use: unless the recipient's printer was similar, the file would unusable.

If one page can't be 'printed' to a PDF-file-producing driver such as CutePDF Writer (freeware -

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probably simplest to send the whole 15-page .pdf ...

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Peter Duck
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Peter Duck

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