Guides

Short, plain answers about taking pages out of a PDF in the browser: picking pages by hand, typing a range, what the new file keeps and what it cannot.

• How to extract pages from a PDF

  What extracting pages actually does to a document, why the new file keeps its text and its page sizes, and the three ways to say which pages you want.

• Selecting PDF pages by range

  How page ranges are written, what a trailing dash means, why overlapping ranges are fine, and why a half-typed range should never quietly become a different selection.

• Scattered pages into one PDF

  How to pull pages from different parts of a long document into a single PDF, why the result comes out in document order, and how to check it before you save.

• Odd and even pages

  When selecting odd or even pages helps, when it does not, and why the numbering is the order of pages in the PDF.

• What Extract Pages Preserves and Changes

  What happens to page content, forms, links, bookmarks and digital signatures when you save selected pages with Extract Pages.