Extracting a Section to a File
You can save one or more sections, or an entire book to a text
file for printing later.
When you extract a section to a file, Bookreader converts the
text to ASCII format. Graphics are not included. Tables are
formatted as closely as possible to the original.
Follow these steps to extract one or more sections or an entire
book to a text file:
1. Depending on what you plan to extract, choose the appro-
priate task from the following table.
To Do This
Choose Print Topic... from the
Topic window's File menu.
Extract one or more sections
from the book that is open
Select the section or sections
in the Navigation window. Then
choose Print Topic(s)... from the
Navigation window's File menu.
Extract a book Select the book title in the Library
window by clicking on it. Then
choose Print Book... from the
Library window's File menu.
You can also append the material to an existing text file.
This feature is not available for PostScript files. Select the
Text button in the Print Format box to enable this feature.
Click on the text-entry field, erase the default name, and
enter the name of the existing file. Then click on the
Append to Existing File button.
3. Click on OK.
The Print dialog box also contains other fields that you may
want to use. For more information on those fields, click on
the Help button in the Print dialog box.
Because of copyright protections or other similar reasons, the
author of a document may choose to suppress the ability to
extract it to a file. If you attempt to extract information from
one of these books to a file you see the following message:
The author of this document has elected to disallow printing.