And another reminder for me – now on how to extract pages from a pdf: If we want to extract, say page 5 to page 9 from book.pdf to extract.pdf we can do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFirstPage=5 -dLastPage=9 -sOutputFile=extract.pdf book.pdf