How can you delete pages from a PDF file if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat?
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.
Update: I tried pdftk, recommended in the comments, and it works well. It’s a command line program with more features than PDFCreator.
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should you need to go beyond the task you mentioned, may I recommend pdftk (http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk). It merges, splits, rotates, repairs etc. I used it. Recommended.
Thanks, Gappy, that’s good to know. Pdftk is the kind of thing I was looking for but I ran across PDFCreator first.
You might also want to have a look at PDFill PDF Tools. Works well for me.And just for completeness, Mac OSX comes built in with “Save as PDF” on the print dialogue, and with the ability to delete pages and re-save a PDF in the Preview app.
I’ve used PDFCreator for some time now (it’s basically a wrapper around GhostScript and RedMon, which you used to have to install manually.) It works great. I recently came across the PDFTK, for a similar task. I can recommend it, as well. Linux has the print to PDF/PS (PDF being a cut-down postscript) options, as well; plus OpenOffice prints to PDF natively.
Thank you for this tip. I knew there had to be a way aside from buying Acrobat Pro!THANK YOU for this article and the link to pdftk. Without this article I would have spent hours trying to figure it out..
THANK YOU all for your comments and advise, you have saved me a lot of time and trials. Excellent solution! I used this idea in CutePDF as well, and it worked a treat. Was trying to figure out how to delete pages, and found the best answer right here, THANKS!! i DON’T KNOW that even pdf creator is able to delate pdf pages! Awesome tip!pdftk specifics; to delete the first page: pdftk original.pdf cat 2-end out new.pdf (Still a little boggled at syntax like “cat 2-end out”.)
cancerofstomach I noticed the loss of word search functionality when using pdfcreator (didn’t try pdftk though) louis vuittonI’m really loving the theme/design of your web web site. Do you ever run into any browser compatibility difficulties? A number of my weblog readers have complained about my website not operating correctly in Explorer but looks fantastic in Opera. Do you might have any solutions to assist fix this problem?
Thanks. I’m not aware of any compatibility difficulties.Although, not as conveient to use, you can also you the printing capabilities from the OS (I know this works under Linux and OS X). Just print the pages you want to PDF from the initial PDF file.
Chris BeeleyI’m super late to this party, but I just got to this page from Google and I thought I would chime in with the “print to pdf” functionality of NitroPdf (can even print to pdf from inside NitroPdf). I use it as default because of the excellent integration with Evernote but this is another reason to use it.
win hageman Sure helped me get some vip mail out. thanks. Smart! Fast solution and worked great. Thanks… Андрей ИнтранетGreat idea! Thank you!
There’s also an nice and free online service for PDF-splitting: http://www.sciweavers.org/free-online-pdf-split
“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.”
GREAT ADVICE! WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF IT MYSELF?
Richard: The part you quoted isn’t as trivial as it sounds. You’re not really printing, but using a facility that is labeled “print” by analogy. “Printing” to PDFCreator makes a single PDF file with only the selected pages.
aside from many comments from people who don’t get the point and think printing to pdf-embedded pictures are the same as editing i will explain:
guys,he asked for an editor, not a PRINTER, cause pdf creator is indeed a soft printer.
and I love the spam of Nitro PDF staff (a commercial soft) promoting their crappy soft. as for the pdf printers- u take a 140kB pdf created in Ooo or MsW, print it to images with pdf creator or cute pdf leaving out the unwanted pages and you get bitmap scans of pages weighing 6megabytes, with no searchability, no editable form fields, dog slow load times etc. etc. indeed pdftk looks good and up to the task just a bit hard to learn.
but it’s a knowledge worth practicing or you can edit the code in notepad, if you know the syntax…I don’t :-) – this was actually the search that took me to your site :-) and I like the purity of your site, as im on an Oled phone and have user css to spare some battery and your site is now nice black with ‘burlywood’ text.
some designers just put all the background stuff to the foreground or use non css background elements which are hard to override without tears.