Select pages
Overview
Use this action to select pages from a PDF and return them in the order of selection, as a new PDF.
Step 1. Create a process and give it a name.
Step 2. Drag the Select pages action to the canvas and link it to the other actions.
Step 3. Create the variables needed for the configuration of the action, and then add them to the configuration panel:
Input File: you need to input a File that contains a .pdf file.
Page selection: you need to write inside the editor the selection of pages you want to select. Supports intervals (ex 5-7) and single values (ex 11). You need to enter each selection on a new row. Press enter to separate selections.
Resulting file: you need to add an output File variable which will return the .pdf with the selection. The resulting Pdf page order should be the same as the selection order.
Given an input PDF with 10 pages and the following selection:
3,
7-8
Resulting .pdf should contain pages: 3,7,8.
Step 4. Save, Validate and Run the process.
Step 5. You will be prompted to add the file for our input variable. Click Run.
Step 6. To verify the process click Check instance.
Step 7. In the Output section, you can see the output variable containing the PDF file with the selected pages only.
