Re: extraction of pages from pdf docs?

["Johannes Hüsing" <tmi0m0@uni-essen.de>]

On Fri 2000-04-28 (12:24), I wrote:
> Sorry if this is an offtopic question but we have no pdf related
> newsgroups on our news seröer.
> 
> How do I extract certain pages from a PDF document? I would like
> to extract pages 1-4, 17-20, 33-36, 49-52 from a 1600 page document.
> 
> We have Adobe Acrobat here. I have not seen how this can be accomplished
> without doing it with my right index finger on the left mouse button. 
> 
> Thank you for any hints.
> 

and Hans directed me to 

texexec --pdfselect

which I tried, only to receive the following error message (excerpt of log):

s is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
entering extended mode
(texexec.tex[/var/lib/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]

ConTeXt  ver: 2000.3.30  fmt: 2000.4.22  int: english  mes: english

language       : language en is active
system         : cont-new loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
line 193: inserting E-TEX code \unless 
)
system         : cont-old loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
system         : cont-fil loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
language       : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-sp-2 2-nl-2 loaded
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
system         : texexec.top loaded
(./texexec.top
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki is reset
specials       : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex <unprotect 2>
systems        : please update your pdfTeX binaries
specials       : loading definition file fdf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4>
<protect 4> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf loaded
<unprotect 3> <protect 3> <protect 2>)
specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
) (././IB_TEST.PDF
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.82 H^^89ìÖ^^?
               L^^SW^^\^^@ð×;À^^93^^9eG^^8fV-³`[Ú*s^^C
? 

So my question, while it may be off-topic here, remains.

Greetings

Johannes