Print a section of a document

[rorsino]

I remember when you used to be able to print a specific section of a document. Now there is only "Download PDF" which gives you everything.

I am looking at the "Search" section of SharePoint Server (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/search/search-architecture-overview) and only want to print that section. If I click on the Download PDF, I get all 600+ pages in a PDF file when all I want it the Search section.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to see a button to be able to download a section of the documentation.

Describe alternatives you've considered 1) I though about downloading the the PDF and 1) editing the PDF so only the section I want is there, but at work, we cannot edit PDF's. 2) I thought about saving PDF in the Word format to edit it that way, but again with only a PDF reader, I cannot save in any other format. 3) Could upload PDF to an online conversion site but sometimes the PDF size is to big.

Additional context This used to be a really nice and helpful feature. Help ???

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[rorsino]

Has this been resolved ad I have the same question!

[u100009]

This has not been resolved and has even become worse.. I've reported this issue as well for other Microsoft Documentation (Dynamics GP ) that used to be available all in PDF, section by section, module by module.. Now everything is packed into the Docs website and when you click on 'Download PDF' it generates a 2500+ pages long PDF document.. Totally unusable ! Please bring back the ability to print a section only from the Documentation as this is painful and an essential option for many partners. I'm not going to start copy/pasting the content of sections into Word just to be able to print them as PDF and hand them out to customers.

[JasonWHowell]

HI @u100009 the Docs site PDF functionality works on the unit of a Table of contents (all pages therein are part of the giant PDF).

Some browsers let you select (use the mouse to highlight) sections of text and print a selection. Edge browser has this feature. You can then print the selection to your printer, or save it to a PDF using Microsoft PDF or another PDF printer.

Thanks, Jason

[hortond00]

I'd like to bump this issue as it has been open for 3.5 years without an apparent fix. I read the docs to familiarize myself with new products and expand the scope of services I offer. Reading the docs as PDFs is the best option for me because they are easier to bookmark and annotate. None of these are single-day reads, so it's pivotal to remember where I was and also make notes for myself of the important bits. The problem is that many of these PDFs are 2k+ pages, with some soaring above 10k or 20k pages, filled with reference material that I don't even want to download for my purposes. At 10k pages, even opening and navigating the PDFs becomes an unwieldy task.

The ability to convert individual sections of docs into PDFs would be incredibly valuable to me. Converting all the docs to a single PDF is certainly helpful, but still a pain. Printing single pages as PDFs does not help me at all, because I don't want thousands of files per set of docs. Ideally I'd have a dozen or so PDFs that are each a few hundred pages, which is exactly the result I'd get if I could convert individual sections to PDF. Is there any hope of this functionality existing in the near future?

[JasonWHowell]

A creative workaround: You can print the pages you want to PDF, then combine the PDFs if you want the portability of one large file. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-and-combine-multiple-files.html Caveat: It does use Adobe Acrobat, which isn't free software.

[hortond00]

My current workaround is similar to that, but without the need to manage hundreds or thousands of PDFs. I download the full docs PDF, make copies, and then use Acrobat's page management functionality to delete all the pages and bookmarks I don't want in each copy, so eventually each copy is a different subset of the docs. It is a tedious and (for 10k+ paged documents) lengthy process.

I appreciate the suggestion, but I was hoping for a better way to automate this

[JasonWHowell]

I put this request into the PDF team's backlog.

[hortond00]

Excellent, thank you very much!