PageMaster User Manual

• Overview
• Splitting and Extraction
• Split by Pages
• Split by Bookmarks
• Split by Output File Size
• Merging
• Applying Security Information
• Applying Document Summary Information
• Batch Processing

Splitting and Extraction

PageMaster can split PDF documents and extract pages according to the following criteria:

• Split by Pages
• Split by Bookmarks
• Split by Output File Size

Split by Pages

'Split by Pages' option allows extraction of individual pages, page ranges and page sets. Use the 'Options' edit box to list the pages to extract. For example:

The atomic operation given in the above table can be stringed together using a comma operator ',' in order to produce more complex actions. For example:

Split by Bookmarks

Splitting a document by bookmarks will generate a set of output documents where each generated file represents a page range between two subsequent bookmarks.

Since bookmarks may nest, PageMaster allows document splitting based on bookmark level. 'Split by Bookmarks' can be fine-tuned by adjusting the bookmark level. For example, to split a book by chapters (e.g. level 2 bookmarks) you just need to limit the bookmark level to 2-3. This will prevent extraction of sections, sub-chapters etc.

Split by Output File Size

PDF PageMaster supports splitting documents based on the file size of generated documents. For example, in order to split a document into 1Mb chunks, enter 1000 in the 'Output File Size' field and click 'Run'. This operation will generate one or more documents each containing one or more pages where the physical size of document is less than or equal to 1MB except if a single page is larger than 1MB.

Merging

PDF PageMaster supports document merging through its 'Merge Files' tab.

The tab contains a list of files to merge along with optional parameters specifying the pages to merge.

In order to add a new source document to the merge list, click on 'Add'. When the source document is selected, you may specify the optional parameter list in the 'Pages' column. For example:

Although one of the most common operations is to combine several documents, the 'Merge' tab can also be used to rearrange pages within a document. For example, to rearrange the pages within a document so that all even pages are followed by odd pages specify 'e, o' as a document Pages parameter. Similarly, pages can be reversed or rearranged in many different ways.

Applying Security Information

PDF PageMaster offers full support for standard PDF encryption algorithms and custom security through extensions. If the input document is protected and requires a password, you will be prompted to enter authorization information.

PageMaster also offers a convenient mechanism to automatically apply or remove security on all generated documents. In order to configure the output security manager, click on 'Security'.

You can choose between the following options:

• 'Do not change' - This option keeps the same security information that was present in the source document.
• 'No Security' - This option generates output documents without any security even if source documents were encrypted.
• '40 bit' - This option applies standard 40 bit encryption, introduced in PDF 1.3, to every generated document. You may specify a user password (a password required to open a document), an owner password (a password required to modify security settings), and permissions.
• '128 bit' - This option applies standard 128 bit encryption introduced in PDF 1.4 to every generated document. You may specify a user password (a password required to open a document), an owner password (a password required to modify security settings), and permissions.

You can limit access to PDF documents by giving the files passwords and restricting certain features such as printing and editing. A document can have a user password and a master password (also known as the owner password). If a file has both passwords, it can be opened with either one. When a file is opened with the user password, the security restrictions are temporarily disabled. If you set any security restrictions on a file, you should also specify a master password (also known as the owner password); otherwise, anyone who opens the file could remove the restrictions. You can select between 40-bit and 128-bit RC4. Depending on selected security level, you can select different permission sets. Permissions associated with 40-bit security handler are the subset of 128-bit security handler and will be grayed out.

Applying Document Summary Information

PDF PageMaster allows you to apply document information settings (or document summary information) automatically and uniformly across all generated documents.

In order to configure the document summary applied to all generated documents click on 'Summary'.

In the Summary dialog box you can enter document information such as the author's name, keywords, title etc. If you would like to preserve the original information, leave the field blank.

Batch Processing

PDF PageMaster was designed from ground up to run as a batch process or as a server component. Although GUI application offers some batch capabilities PageMaster command- line application and PageMaster library are better suited to run in unattended mode.

In order to process a whole directory, specify a wildcard (*.pdf) as the source document.

If you would like to process all subfolders as well, make sure that 'Recurse into subdirectories' is checked.