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Saving One page of a PDF or any other document in Big Sur

I can no longer select: "File->Print->Save as PDF" with Big Sur. I want to take any document (PDF or anything printable) and select a specific page(s) and save/export that page(s) to a PDF. I am able to export anything to a PDF File or take a current PDF document in Preview, delete all the pages I don't want and then "Export to PDF". This is cumbersome, especially if I'm not starting from a PDF file. In the previous OS versions I was able to simply do the "File->Print->Save as PDF" and simply by selecting specific page(s) my job was essentially done. Did Big Sur remove this feature? Is there another way to do this easily or is the way I described above the simplest way?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 22, 2020 7:01 PM

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Posted on Nov 30, 2020 5:41 PM

Hello Phil Childerhose,


It looks like you're seeking some assistance in saving items to a PDF. We will be happy to help.


Big Sur, the steps to save a document as a PDF can be found in this article: Save a document as a PDF on Mac


There's also some steps in an article on how to combine PDFs in Preview linked in that article as well.


We hope this helps.


Cheers!

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Nov 30, 2020 5:41 PM in response to Phil Childerhose

Hello Phil Childerhose,


It looks like you're seeking some assistance in saving items to a PDF. We will be happy to help.


Big Sur, the steps to save a document as a PDF can be found in this article: Save a document as a PDF on Mac


There's also some steps in an article on how to combine PDFs in Preview linked in that article as well.


We hope this helps.


Cheers!

Nov 30, 2020 5:55 PM in response to CarlAVII

Yes, that does work. Part of the problem we were experiencing was within Adobe Acrobat Reader. We did not notice at the very bottom of the print dialog box, we have to select the "Printer" before continuing. Previously, we could select the printer from a different location in the print dialog window. Thank you for a response. All is well again.

Saving One page of a PDF or any other document in Big Sur

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