I have a large document (several hundred pages large) that I would like to extract some pages from. All the online advice suggests using the print function. But I do not have a printer and actually I just want to turn some pages into a separate file. I have Evince, which does the basics well. Is there a pdf editor that can do this that? What would folk recommend? Bev
If you install or add a PDF printer, or the app has a save to PDF function in the print dialogue, then you can "print" selective PDF pages to a PDF file. No physical printer required. You normally just add the PDF printer through the same way you'd add a physical printer. From the commandline you can install pdftk and then enter the following: pdftk original.pdf cat 3-6 output outfile.pdf for example to extract pages 3 to 6. Good luck Martin
On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 10:03:35AM +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I have a large document (several hundred pages large) that I would like to extract some pages from. All the online advice suggests using the print function. But I do not have a printer and actually I just want to turn some pages into a separate file. I have Evince, which does the basics well. Is there a pdf editor that can do this that? What would folk recommend?
I think the suggestion that is being made is to use the print dialogue, choose the pages you want "printed" and then use the option to output the print as a pdf file rather than to a printer. This is what I do when I want to extract just a few pages from a pdf into a new file. Adam
D'oh. Tried that again but guess what? I'd already managed it. As you were. Bev. On Jul 11 2026, at 10:36 am, Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 10:03:35AM +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I have a large document (several hundred pages large) that I would like to extract some pages from. All the online advice suggests using the print function. But I do not have a printer and actually I just want to turn some pages into a separate file. I have Evince, which does the basics well. Is there a pdf editor that can do this that? What would folk recommend?
I think the suggestion that is being made is to use the print dialogue, choose the pages you want "printed" and then use the option to output the print as a pdf file rather than to a printer.
This is what I do when I want to extract just a few pages from a pdf into a new file.
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On 11/07/2026 10:03, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I have a large document (several hundred pages large) that I would like to extract some pages from. I know you've got this solved now, but as an alternative: If the pages you want to extract are consecutive, the command line utility pdfseparate (in the poppler-utils package on Debian) might be an efficient way to do it.
(I'm sure there used to be a similar utility, possibly called pdfpages, that could do it for non-consecutive pages too, but that seems to have disappeared.) -- Kind regards, Dan Hatton E-mail: dan.hatton@btinternet.com Signal: dch.28 Threema: 5UAVHC96 SIP: dan.hatton@sip.linphone.org
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