Why does preview only export the the first page of a multi-page PDF, regardless of what page I'm on?

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Why does preview only export the the first page of a multi-page PDF, regardless of what page I'm on?

I am trying to save all 20 pages of a pdf as .png images. I scroll to each page and then select File>Export... and save an image. Regardless of which page I'm on, it will only export the first page.

*LAME*

What is even more lame is that I'm doing this work-around because whoever created this datasheet either didn't properly embed the fonts, or the fonts are corrupt, hence, while it displays perfectly on the screen, printing yeilds:

ERROR: invalidfont

OFFENDING COMMAND: show

STACK:

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If it can display it, there should be a way to print what you see (remember rasterized plots back in the day??).

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 5, 2012 12:09 PM

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Sep 5, 2012 12:44 PM in response to GoofyEngineer

That does seem rather useless.

Use Automator - it has a "PDF to Images" action that will do exactly what you need. Drop your document into the workflow, drop the "PDF to Images" action in right after that, set any options that you need (like where to save) and then click "run"

Barring that, I've found that sometimes Adobe Reader will sometimes work well for documents that Preview can't print, and I've found some documents that Adobe Reader chokes on but Preview handles flawlessly.

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Why does preview only export the the *first* page of a multi-page PDF, regardless of what page I'm on?

Why does preview only export the the first page of a multi-page PDF, regardless of what page I'm on?