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Export Documents

When you save a document PDF Nomad saves a new version of the PDF file you opened, incorporating the changes you made. There are options, however, to export other variations of the document:

Explode…

You can explode PDF documents into smaller documents consisting of individual pages from the original, or into multiple documents each containing smaller groups of pages from the original. The following options are available when exploding:

  • Use Source Name For File Name: instead of using the original file name as the source for the exploded PDF files about to be created, PDF Nomad will use the name under the Source column in the page list.
  • First File Number: if you want PDF Nomad to automatically append a number to the name of each created PDF file, enter the first file number (it will be used as an offset when creating the numbering scheme).
  • Use Page Labels For File Numbers: Alternatively, you can let PDF Nomad append the page labels as the file 'number' of each created PDF file.
  • Filter: You can apply any available filter to each file created. (Or create you own filter using the ColorSync utility.)

Split Into Even/Odd Pages

This option will split create two PDF files, one with all even pages of the original document, and the other with all odd pages of the original document. A filter can be applied to both documents as they are created.

Split Into Bitmap Files…

This option splits the document’s pages into bitmapped graphics files. One file per page. Pages can be exported to TIFF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG or JPEG2000, optionally with a transparent background (instead of the page color, which is usually white), at the specified pixel resolution, which defaults to 72. (Pages that have a painted (white) background cannot be made transparent.)

Choose the output resolution depending on the intended use of the images. If the images are going to be shown on-screen only you probably want to keep them at 72 dpi. (Or, for high resolution screens like the iPhone 4 Retina display, 144 dpi). If the images will be printed, you may want to specify at least 300 dpi. (This will dramatically increase the file size of the resulting image files.)

A filter can be applied when the bitmap files are created. For instance, you could create sepia tinted monochrome versions of each page.

Text

This option exports the textual contents of the document as an RTF document. Note that only the text on the pages will be exported. Annotation text of any kind will not be included.

Speech…

This option exports selected text (or all document text if no text is selected) to an AIFF audio file.

Selected Pages…

Where the options listed above operate on the complete set of pages contained in a PDF document, this option will export only the pages that are selected in the page list at the time the export selection command is issued. This offers a convenient way to export a subset of pages from the entire document, as a single PDF document. A filter can be applied during the export.