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  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

      Extract the section you are  Choose Print Topic...  from the
      reading                      Topic window's File menu.

      Extract one or more sections Select the section or sections
      from the book that is open   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.

  2.   In thePrint dialog box   , click on the Save to File but-
      ton.  Bookreader supplies a default file name.  To specify a
      different file name, click on the text-entry field, erase the
      default name, and enter your own.
      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.

  Additional topics:

  *   Opening a Book

  *   Selecting a Section to Read

  *   Navigating through a Book

  *   Printing a Section or Book

  *   Bookreader Help Topics
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