Ever wonder how to extract a single page or pages from PDF file? This tutorial will show you how I did it, what have I encountered and how to fix it. However, this tutorial only applicable for Adobe Acrobat Reader as I am using it in my daily life. Let's begin.

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Step 1: Open PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open your PDF file with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it, click here to download it.

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Step 2: Extract Page or Pages from PDF file

For the sake of this tutorial, let's say that I want to extract page 12 as a single PDF file. At first, click on the 'Print Icon' (shown in diagram below) or go to 'File' select 'Print' or use CTRL + P to open the 'Print Interface'.

Under 'Printer' select 'Adobe PDF' (as shown in diagram below). And then choose the page or pages that you want to extract. In my case, I select 'Current page' or type 12 in 'Pages'. After that click 'Print' and save your page or pages into a new PDF file. That's it!

Print Interface

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Difficulties

After I successfully extract a new PDF file, I wanted to extract again. Now, an error occurred. It stated: "Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat is not activated ".

Solution

If you have the same problem, you may want to do this. At first, close the Adobe Acrobat Reader, in other words, close your PDF file. And then, open 'Task Manager' with CTRL + SHIFT + ESC.

You will see that 'AcroTray (32 bit)' under 'Background processes'. Remove or end it and you are good to go. Now you can go back to Step 1 and Step 2 to extract pages from Adobe Acrobat Reader. Hope this tutorial will help you and save your time, thank you. 😎