How to save a section of a pdf

Question

I have been sent a massive pdf with over 500 pages, of which I only need the final 30 or so. Is there a way I can save just the last pages as a seperate pdf document?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to install a PDF printer like PDFCreator (As Glutanimate already mentioned)

^{Example with PDF-X Change Viewer and PDFCreator}

• Download & install a PDF printer (there are many alternatives which work similar)
• Open your PDF with your favority software like Adobe Reader or PDF-XChange Viewer
• Open the print dialog
• Choose your newly installed Printer
• Head down to the section where you choose the pages you want
• Click print and you will be asked for a destination and file name

Answer 2

This can be done using the commandline tool PDFtk (= the PDF Toolkit).

Example:

pdftk A=in1.pdf cat A130-160 output out1.pdf

As suggested in other answers, "printing" the required pages to a PDF printer is a good option. My favorite for this is doPDF.

Edited:

In case you don't like commandline tools, you can control PDFtk using Dirk Paehl's GUIPDFTK:

Just enter the page number range as "CAT from:" and "CAT to:".