I have automated Adobe Acrobat (the full version) for this type of work in the past. Although it is not a utility program per se , it does the work.

>What is a good PDF utility program to work with VFP?
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>A user wants a Foxpro application that will take a previously existing large PDF (from another system) with many pages and build several small PDF by extracting various pages from the large PDF.
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>For example,
>The Foxpro user will select the Large.pdf and then fill in a small grid that says something like:
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>Page 1 -3 extract to XX1.pdf
>Page 4 extract to XX2.pdf
>Page 5 - 9 extract to XX3.pdf
>Page 10 - 20 extract to XX4.pdf
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>THEN, the small PDFs would have a unique cover page inserted into the front of each PDF.
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>XX1.pdf would have a PDF cover page from Foxpro Report 1234 and combined with xx1.pdf
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>Then xx1.PDF will be faxed to company 456
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