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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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    can you elaborate on your issue? Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 20:54
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    I'm afraid it's that simple Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 20:56
  • Do you want to remove it from the pdf file completely or hide it in Okular? Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 21:02
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    to modify the multi-page PDF to remove a specific page within the PDF, using Okular's GUI Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 21:13
  • I do not think you can with Okukar. Master PDF editor would be a much better option. Commented Aug 25, 2019 at 4:59

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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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If you want an easy GUI solution, I have found PDF Arranger to be really valuable and end user compatible. With it you can merge, join, split, extract, delete and insert single pages from PDF documents, and all using the mouse.

And it's just 300kB.

sudo apt install pdfarranger

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    Yup. This is it. Lightweight and simple. Can remove pages, re-arrange and append pdf docs. Works on Ubuntu 20.04. Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 8:56
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I always try to reduce the dependency-trail of my installed packages. For pdftk I would have to install 16 additional Java dependencies on my Gentoo system ...

So (at least for completeness sake) I wanted to point out, that you can use Ghostscript for this task. It is preinstalled on most Linux systems.

Let's say you want to delete page 2,7,9 and 14 of you document:

gs -sPageList=1,3-6,8,10-13,15- -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER  -sOutputFile=myPDF_out.pdf myPDF.pdf

The trailing dash after 15 indicates, that you want to keep all the pages from 15 to the end of the document.

So if you want to delete only page 5 you would issue:

gs -sPageList=1-4,6- -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER  -sOutputFile=myPDF_out.pdf myPDF.pdf

(Be aware that page numbers have to be in ascending order)

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    This worked perfectly for me, better than any other solution. Commented Jul 24, 2020 at 21:03
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Use LibreOffice "draw" to open the pdf file, delete the pages you want and then EXPORT it as a pdf.....done.

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  • you can even export and select the desired page range to save one step Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 8:21
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LibreOffice draw didn't work for me, as it munted the formatting. However, Xournal allowed me to remove (and re-arrange) pages while preserving the original document formatting.

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  • Thank you, this is what ultimately worked for me. Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 17:30
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If you want to delete pages from the start or end of the document, using Okular:

  1. Menu File > Print
  2. For Name select Print to File (PDF)
  3. Expand Options >>
  4. Select Pages from [_] to [_]
  5. Increase the first number to skip pages at the start
  6. Decrease the second number to skip pages at the end
  7. You can keep Output file as the current filename, if you like. (After writing the file, Okular will reload it automatically.)
  8. Hit Print
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