It’s easy to delete pages from a pdf on a Mac using the built-in program called Preview. I’ve written a handful of different articles on how you can manipulate pdfs on a mac:
- Re-order pages of a pdf
- Rotate individual pages of a pdf
- Insert pages into a pdf
- Create a new pdf from one or more pages of a pdf
- How to create a mac application to merge pdf’s in automator
How to Delete Individual Pages of a Pdf
Step 1: Open the pdf in Preview.
By default, Preview opens all pdfs. If you have changed the default program to something else you’ll need to browse to your Applications directory and launch it manually (or simply type preview in your spotlight search). If you have Preview nestled in your dock you can simply drag and drop a pdf file onto the icon.Step 2: Make sure the “View Thumbnails” is turned on. You can toggle this option at the “View > Thumbnails” option at the top of the screen or by the keyboard shortcut of “Option-Command-2”. The thumbnails show up by default on the left side:
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| Here you can see the thumbnails in the left column |
Step 3: Select the page you wish to delete in the thumbnails column by clicking once on it.
You can select a range of pages by clicking on the first one and then holding down the shift key and then clicking on the last one.
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| Here you can see that I have the first 2 pages selected in the thumbnail list |
Step 4: Press the delete key to delete the selected pages.
It’s as simple as that.
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