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You know how you sometimes need to unstaple a PDF? Like, instead of taking multiple PDFs and “stapling” them into a single combined PDF, you want to “unstaple” a multi-page PDF and save each page as its own file?
Ok, Bluebeam already has a name for this feature and it’s not “reverse stapling”. It’s called Extract Pages . You can use it to do just that: extract one or more pages and save them as their own PDF file.
This feature is particularly useful if you’re working with Sets , but that’s a topic for another day.
You can extract any number of pages as individual files or you can extract a subset of pages as their own combined file.
Either way, the process is the same.
**Pro tip** before we begin: If you’re exacting lots of pages to be saved as individual files, make sure you have page labels set up beforehand. This will prevent you from needing to name each file manually later.
As I mentioned in the intro, once you have each drawing saved as its own file, you can utilize Bluebeam Sets. If you don’t know what that is, I suggest you check out this video to get an idea of what Sets are and this Bluebeam support page to learn how to set it up.
How else do you use the Extract Pages feature? Let me know in the comments!