{"id":13153,"date":"2018-02-08T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-ashley.cms-devl.bu.edu\/researchsupport\/?p=13153"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:33:11","slug":"splitting-pdfs-into-separate-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/2018\/02\/08\/splitting-pdfs-into-separate-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Splitting PDFs into Separate Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Instructions for splitting PDFs into\u00a0separate documents with individual\u00a0pages automatically, using Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC.<\/h2>\n<p>This is particularly useful when splitting PARs into individual files to send for digital signature.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1.Open the PDF using Adobe Pro or Pro DC (the feature isn\u2019t available in Adobe Reader). In Adobe Pro DC, navigate to the menu at the top and select: View -&gt; Tools -&gt; Organize Pages -&gt; Open<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture1-636x377.png\" alt=\"Split PDF How To Adobe Acrobat Pro\" width=\"636\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13154\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 2.\u00a0The Organize Pages screen shows thumbnails of the PDF pages, and multiple options.\u00a0You want to select the Split option in the menu at the top of the screen.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture2-636x297.png\" alt=\"Split-PDFs_Picture2\" width=\"636\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture3.png\" alt=\"Split-PDFs_Picture3\" width=\"372\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13156\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 3.\u00a0\u00a0Select Split and a new menu bar appears below it. Make sure that you type \u201c1\u201d so that it says \u201cSplit by Number of Pages, 1 Pages\u201d \u2013 this will ensure that each PAR is saved as a separate PDF document.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture4-636x74.png\" alt=\"Split-PDFs_Picture4\" width=\"636\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13157\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>*Note &#8211; if you are using Adobe Acrobat Pro (not DC), go to Tools -&gt; Pages -&gt; Split Document.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture5-531x636.png\" alt=\"Split-PDFs_Picture5\" width=\"531\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13158\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 4.\u00a0If you click on \u201cOutput Options\u201d you can change where to save the files, as well as the naming convention for the files.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture6.png\" alt=\"Split-PDFs_Picture6\" width=\"442\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13159\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 5.\u00a0Once you are happy with your options, click \u201cSplit\u201d next to \u201cOutput Options\u201d and you will get a pop up box notification once complete. Go to the designated folder to see the saved individual PDF pages.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/researchsupport\/files\/2018\/02\/Split-PDFs_Picture7.png\" alt=\"Split-PDFs_Picture7\" width=\"524\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13160\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructions for splitting PDFs into\u00a0separate documents with individual\u00a0pages automatically, using Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC. This is particularly useful when splitting PARs into individual files to send for digital signature. Step 1.Open the PDF using Adobe Pro or Pro DC (the feature isn\u2019t available in Adobe Reader). In Adobe Pro DC, navigate to the menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-demos.cms-devl.bu.edu\/bu-filtering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}