Split Pages

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Split Pages


 

Editor-Icon Split Pages

 


 

Click Split Pages to split document pages:

 

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Figure 1. Document Tab Submenu, More for Pages, Split Pages

 

The Split Pages feature is a convenient feature for splitting document pages into smaller sections. When it is selected, the following dialog box will open:

 

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Figure 2. Split Pages Dialog Box

 

Percentage is the default method used to split pages. Clear the Use relative offset values box to use metric measurements instead.

Click Split Every to split at even intervals throughout the document. The Split Every dialog box will open, as detailed below.

Click Add Horizontal Split and/or Add Vertical Split at the top of the preview pane to add splits to documents. Splits are inserted at 50% by default and will appear in the preview pane and the list of splits when these options are used, as detailed above. Click and drag to reposition splits as desired.

Use the plus and minus zoom icons to edit the view of the preview pane.

Click Edit Split/Remove Split to edit/remove selected splits in the list of splits.

Select the Use Right To Left splitting method box to split documents from right to left. Note that the order in which documents are split determines the order of sections in the split document.

Select the Remove source pages after splitting them to remove the original document from the active pane when pages are split. If this box is cleared then both the original document and the split pages will be present after pages are split.

Select an option from the Select split method dropdown menu to determine the method used to split documents:

Change the physical size of the pages adjusts the size of pages in order to split them.

Redefine the visible area (crop box) of the pages adjusts the crop box of pages. Further information about the crop box and other page boxes is available here. When this option is used the Preserve original content box is available. If this option is enabled then the visible page area will be reduced, but the cropped content will remain available and be present if, for example, pages are resized subsequently.

The Page Range settings are as follows:

Select All to split all the pages of the document.

Select Current Page to split only the current page.

Use the Pages box to determine specific pages of the document to be split. Further information on defining page ranges is available here. Use the Subset option to select All Pages, Odd Pages Only or Even Pages Only for page ranges specified in the Pages number box.

 

Click OK to split pages.

 

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Figure 3. Split Every Dialog Box

 

Select Standard to split documents at intervals of standard dimensions, then select the desired dimension in the dropdown menu, and specify the desired orientation in the second dropdown menu.

Select Custom to split documents at intervals of custom dimensions, then enter the desired dimensions and units of measurement in the adjacent number box and dropdown menu.

Select Percentage to split documents according to a percentage of the document page size.

Select the Add horizontal/vertical splits boxes as desired.

 

Click OK to split pages.

 

Split Pages by Guide Lines

 

The Split Pages by Guide Lines feature is used to split documents according to guide lines, which you can create and edit as detailed here. When this option is selected the Split Pages dialog box will open:

 

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Figure 4. Split Pages Dialog Box

 

Select the Use Right to Left splitting method box to split documents from the top-right corner, or clear this box to split documents from the top-left corner.

Select the Remove source pages after splitting them box to remove split pages from the document when the split is performed.

Use the Select split method dropdown menu to determine the type of split that is performed:

Select Redefine the visible area (crop box) of the page(s) to redefine the crop box in order to crop pages.

Select Change the physical size of the pages to change the size of pages in order to crop pages.

Select the Preserve original content to preserve the original document content when pages are split.

Use the Pages and Subset options to determine the pages to be split.

 

Click OK to split pages.