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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gappy 11.06.09 at 20:29
John,
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.
John 11.06.09 at 20:56
Thanks, Gappy, that’s good to know. Pdftk is the kind of thing I was looking for but I ran across PDFCreator first.
Khairul 11.06.09 at 22:27
You might also want to have a look at PDFill PDF Tools. Works well for me.
Barry Leiba 11.07.09 at 15:57
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.
Neil 11.11.09 at 19:34
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.