Okular – How to Delete a Page from a PDF

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Didn't see an option in the menus or any documentation on what I imagine is something simple:

I have a multi-page PDF and want to delete a specific page within Okular's GUI.

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There is no way to remove a page in Okular. However, it can refresh modified PDF document automatically so there is no need to re-open the document manually after modifying it in external tool such as pdftk. To remove a given page use cat option and specify a range of pages you'd like to keep in the target PDF file. For example, if you want to remove 5th page in document.pdf execute the following command:

pdftk document.pdf cat 1-4 6-end output out.pdf && mv out.pdf document.pdf

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Use convert to grab a specific page from a PDF file

ImageMagick is a tool for bitmap images, which most PDFs aren't. If you use it, it will rasterize the data, which is often not desirable.

Pdftk can extract one or more pages from a PDF file.

pdftk A=input.pdf cat A42 A43 output pages_42_43.pdf

If you have a LaTeX installation with PDFLaTeX, you can use pdfpages. There's a shell wrapper for pdfpages, pdfjam.

pdfjam -o pages_42_43.pdf input.pdf 42,43

Another possibility (overkill here, but useful for requirements more complex that one page) is Python with the PyPdf library.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import copy, sys
from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
input = PdfFileReader(sys.stdin)
output = PdfFileWriter()
for i in [42, 43]:
    output.addPage(input.getPage(i))
output.write(sys.stdout)

How to output an info page to pdf

Ah, info brings along the texi2ps and texi2pdf programs.

So if you find the info source (info.texi) you can generate beautiful (or bloated, depending on your point of view) PDF using:

texi2pdf info.texi

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Use convert to grab a specific page from a PDF file

How to output an info page to pdf

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