# CutePDF question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 20, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutepdf-question/500409 "2009-06-20T17:58:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutepdf-question/500409/1 "2009-06-20T17:58:27Z")
Does anyone else use this program? It’s just a free PDF-making thing that’s pretty handy, except for one thing: I have a bunch of 500-page PDFs that I want to extract from. So I go into one of the files and “print” a 10-page excerpt from it to a separate file, but that small 10-page file is the same size as the full document! In other words, the small file is still 5MB or whatever. But I just want to email the excerpt, which shouldn’t even be 1MB. What am I doing wrong? P.S. I scoured their support page but I don’t think English is their first language and it’s making it very difficult to find answers. Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutepdf-question/500409/2 "2009-06-20T18:26:48Z")
I can answer part of your question: Yes, I use CutePDF, too. ---
**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutepdf-question/500409/3 "2009-06-21T03:51:35Z")
Id switch to the free software called PDF Creator. It lets you specify the dpi you want to use in your document and has a lot more features than Cute. Use a smaller dpi if you want a smaller file. 300 or so is fine. > **[PDFCreator](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)** > > Download PDFCreator for free. Converts every printable document to PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF and more. PDFCreator creates professional PDFs with just a few clicks and it's free. PDFCreator comes with many professional features to merge documents, send... ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutepdf-question/500409/4 "2009-06-21T03:59:05Z")
You might want to use something like [PDF Split and Merge](http://www.pdfsam.org/) instead.