How do I create a .PDF from selected pages of an existing .PDF?

Question

The question is simple: I want to create a .PDF from pages 30-50 of an already existing 100 page .PDF.

What would be the easiest and most professional way to do this?

Answer 1

Print it on pdf printer and only select pages 30-50.

Answer 2

I haven't used this but it looks interesting and offers a lot of other options as well:

PDF Split and Merge

Answer 3

There are two commandline tools, both available for Linux as well as for Windows or Mac OS X, which can do this:

• PDFTK
• Ghostscript

Using pdftk/pdftk.exe:

pdftk mypdf.pdf cat 30-50 output mypdf-pages-30-50.pdf

Using gs/gswin32c.exe:

gswin32c.exe ^
 -o mypdf-pages-30-50.pdf ^
 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ^
 -dFirstPage=30 ^
 -dLastPage=50 ^
 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress ^
  c:/path/to/mypdf.pdf

(The gswin32.exe command is the example for Windows usage. On Linux, replace this with gs and type the complete command on one line, or replace the line-continue chars ^ by \.)

Answer 4

I use the Bullzip PDF Printer, and have found it to be very reliable and reasonably configurable for a free product.