How to Save Certain Pages of a PDF.

Graphic showing a PDF file hovering in front of a laptop.

Sometimes it isn’t necessary to save an entire PDF. If you would rather save specific pages of a PDF instead of a whole document, we have the guide for you. This article will go through everything you need to know about how to save individual pages of a PDF.

With our comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to split your PDFs and get rid of unnecessary pages. Knowing how to save specific pages of a PDF can help you to manage your information in a way that suits you.

Read on as we learn how to save select pages from a PDF.

What You’ll Learn.

Save One Page of a PDF Using Print.

Choose the PDF that you want to save individual pages from, which you can then open using Adobe Acrobat PDF Editor. Head to Print settings and perform the following steps.

In the top bar menu, click on File, and select Print.

File and Print menu screen.

When this opens, click on the Printer option and select ‘Print to PDF’ (it may be worded slightly differently depending on what version you have), along with the location – this will save the pages as a separate PDF to that file on your device.

Selecting Print to PDF.

In the printer settings, choose the pages you want to save and click Print.

Print dialog box showing specific pages selected for printing.

The pages you have selected will save as PDFs, the ones you haven’t selected won’t.

How to Save Select Individual Pages from a PDF by Extraction.

You can choose to save the pages that you want with the Adobe Acrobat online extraction tool. Using any web browser, open the Adobe Acrobat online tool, and extract pages from PDFs. Simply follow these steps.

Adobe online extract tool.

Upload the PDF you want to extract pages from by clicking on ‘Select a file’ and then choosing the document.
Select the pages you want to extract to create a new PDF file.
Press Extract.
Download the new PDF file onto your device.

Save One Page of a PDF Using the Online Extract Tool.

If you have a large PDF document and wish to isolate only one of the pages, you can do so with the following steps online.

Use any web browser to go to the Acrobat Extract PDF pages tool.
Upload the PDF you wish to extract from.
Select the page you want to extract to create a new PDF file.
Click Extract.
Download as a new PDF.

If the ‘print to PDF’ option is more to your liking, just select the one page in the range to extract that particular one.

How to Separate Pages Using a PDF Reader.

There’s another method to save certain pages of a PDF – the Windows in-built PDF viewer on Microsoft Edge. For Mac users, the equivalent is called ‘Preview’. Below, we’ll break down how to save individual pages of a PDF using these methods.

Save one page with a Mac:

Open your PDF in Preview.
Go to File > Print. A new pop-up will appear.
Under Pages, select the page number you want to extract as a new PDF page.
From the menu, adjust from PDF to ‘Save as PDF’.
Choose your new file location and select Save.

Save one page with Windows:

Print to PDF in Microsoft Edge.

Open your PDF in Microsoft Edge.
Go to File > Print > Microsoft Print to PDF.
Under Page Range, select the page number you want to extract as a new PDF page.
Click Print. A pop-up will appear.
Choose your new file location and select Save.

FAQs.

How do I email certain pages of a PDF in Adobe?

Open the PDF
There are two ways in which you can share the PDF by email, by going to File > Share File or selecting the Email icon. Both will open a box that lets you type in the email address and send the PDF directly to the recipients.

File and Share File Location.