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Extract A Range Of Pages From A PDF

12.02.2011
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        // Use `gs' to create a new PDF document containing only a page range from another document


$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
     -dFirstPage=N -dLastPage=M \
     -sOutputFile=document-N-M.pdf \
     document.pdf
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