Delete page from a PDF document

How can you delete pages from a PDF file if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat?

Option 1: PDFCreator

Download PDFCreator from SourceForge. It installs as a printer. It lets you create PDFs from any application by selecting PDFCreator as your “printer.” To delete pages from an existing PDF, open the PDF in Adobe Reader and print to PDFCreator the pages you don’t want to delete.

I don’t have a lot of experience with PDFCreator; I just downloaded it today. But it looks good and it worked well for what I was trying to do.

Option 2: pdftk

Install pdftk, and use command follow this format

pdftk in1.pdf cat 1-12 14-end output out1.pdf

or

pdftk A=in1.pdf cat A1-12 A14-end output out1.pdf

the 2 above commands will remove ‘page 13’ from in1.pdf, your result is out1.pdf

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