GreenPrint World is a free program that allows you to get rid of those extra blank pages and eliminate any parts of pages you don't want all while keeping track of exactly how much you're saving. It also has a built in PDF writer so that you can save things and avoid printing altogether.
This program would be a great complement to the Three Free Tools for Creating, Editing and Reading PDFs and Free Font to Save Ink and Toner that I wrote about recently.
What I would really like to see in the future is a simple desktop publishing program that takes this idea further. Ideally, you would be able to easily cut and paste elements of web pages, documents and your own text together and print and save these creations directly. It's hard to quantify the time, paper and scotch tape wasted when I do this by hand almost every day. Programmers of the world, we need you!
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I find that Adobe Reader lets me take selection screenshots by changing the cursor to the "photo" button (near the "hand" button and the "text cursor" button) and dragging around the part of the page that I want. I can then paste my screenshot from the clipboard into MS Publisher as an image and move it around until it's where I want it. Combined with copying and pasting text into publisher from various sources I very rarely have to print anything out in order to cut it up and physically copy and paste anymore.
If you don't have publisher you can fake it with Word but it's less handy with moving images around.
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