On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 22:44:58 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 15:24:52 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > > > page/paragraph of interest. > > > > I agree, but I wonder why you think it needs to be stated. > > What tool are you using and what part of it makes you think it really > > wants you to print all 90 pages of a document? > > > > FWIW, nowadays I basically never print to paper from anything else than > > my favorite PDF viewer (which does offer me to print any selected > > subset of the pages). For everything else, I "print to PDF" (and then > > use my PDF viewer to print to paper the parts I need, if that's > > what I want). > > What I would miss if I had only that for PDFs: > > . a record of how I made the printout, > > . a carbon copy of the document to file (if I do print, > it's generally to send it somewhere), > > . the ability to do this manually or with scripts, > > . handling encryption, > > . most importantly, the ability to assemble a document > from multiple parts of various sources.
Thanks to Stefan for pointing out a lack of context in my post. It's meant to relate to my earlier post suggesting pdftk, and points out that selection of pages is the least that pdftk can do. The list above is just the functions I use regularly. So, for example, at tax time each year, I run a number of scripts that automatically collate the appropriate pages from the mountain of monthly/quarterly documents received or downloaded over the year. Of course, much of this thread is moot if Gene is concerned only with printing parts of a text file, rather than sections of the processed marked-up document. Cheers, David.
