I purchased a new Trimble Tablet with Trimble Access to use for mostly road staking. Screen is a lot easier to see than the TCU or TSC controllers. Here's on advantage I hoped it would have, but haven't been successful yet.
Many times while staking something I need to go check something on the plans. I want to be able to have the plans open and minimized on the tablet while staking, so I can go back and forth between them. We get nearly all our plans in PDF, but they are usually large sets in 1 or 2 files with everything from typical sections to landscaping, and I only need maybe 1/4 of the pages. I've tried using CutePDF to print out the pages I need and then combine them into a file, but those files take forever to load with Adobe on the tablet. What is the cleanest way to get the pages I need separated from the rest, and create a PDF that's not so big I can't load it, but that will be clear on the screen when zoomed in? I've loaded them on my IPad before, and sometimes they load quickly, and sometimes it takes a long time, never figured out what the differences are. They do seem to work better using IBooks than Adobe on it.
Instead of printing the pages you need from the supplied PDF to another PDF, try looking for an option to extract pages from the supplied PDF. Another option is to make a copy of the supplied PDF and then delete the unneeded pages. Either option should allow you to get the smallest file size possible with no loss of resolution.
NitroPDF works for me. Make a copy of the original, and delete the pages you don't need. It should reduce the file size
> What is the cleanest way to get the pages I need separated from the rest, and create a PDF that's not so big I can't load it, but that will be clear on the screen when zoomed in?
Adobe Acrobat.
Fork over the $300. I know it seems like a lot but once you have you won't want to be without it.
When your pdf is a product of scanned paper (as opposed to files printed to pdf) they are very large. Like 10 times larger. Naturally those huge file are slow to load. One of the things you can do with Acrobat is optimize those scans - there by making the file sizes much smaller, with no loss of clarity.
Besides that you can build or split files, deskew, despeckle, annotate, etc.
Fork over. You will be glad you did.
:good: :good: :good: Small price if you use PDF's on a regular basis.
That's what I've been using, but it's an older version, 6 I think. Wonder if a newer version has more options?
I'm running version 10pro and I can extract pages to create a new PDF or delete unwanted pages from an existing PDF to make it smaller. Prior to version 10pro I had version 4 and I believe it had the same capabilities.
Try looking under the Document > Pages menu for the extract and delete pages options.
> .. Wonder if a newer version has more options?
Not really. Not in the things you want anyway.
I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the tips.
