Cut select pages from a pdf file and create a new file from those pages. 

ps2pdf -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=10 input.pdf output.pdf

February 15, 2012 — Anon6y5E4Use

Explanation

ps2pdf is a script that comes with Ghostscript - despite the name, it can accept PDF files as input, not just postscript files.

Limitations

Only a single contiguous range of pages can be specified.

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Cut select pages from a pdf file and create a new file from those pages. 

 pdftk input.pdf cat 2-4 7 9-10 output output.pdf

February 3, 2012 — mmaki