# Can I delete pages of an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) document that I downloaded from Google Books? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 10, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478 "2011-11-10T04:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478/1 "2011-11-10T04:07:01Z")
I downloaded a book from Google Books. It is some 500 pages long. Only about 200 pages of the book are of interest to me. Is there a way to delete the pages I do not want, and keep just the ones I do want? Thanks, all, in advance. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478/2 "2011-11-10T04:32:40Z")
I just downloaded their version of _Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland_ and successfully deleted ten blank pages with the full version of Adobe Acrobat. It might be different if the material is still in copyright. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478/3 "2011-11-10T11:50:23Z")
I use an open-source tool called “PDF Split and Merge” ( [http://www.pdfsam.org/](http://www.pdfsam.org/) ). Not sure if it works on all kinds of PDF files… ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478/4 "2011-11-10T13:29:21Z")
You can’t edit PDF files with the free version of acrobat. You can with the pay version. I believe you can use Open Office to edit a PDF file, but IIRC you have to import the file, edit it, then convert it back to a PDF. There are some free PDF editors out there but I don’t know how good they are. You might check to see if PDFEdit has a Windows version available (might be only for Linux). ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478/5 "2011-11-10T18:31:11Z")
I use the freeware [PDFTools](http://www.sheelapps.com/). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-delete-pages-of-an-adobe-acrobat-pdf-document-that-i-downloaded-from-google-books/602478/6 "2011-11-12T15:29:06Z")
You can also look up a PDF print driver on Google and install it, and then print only the pages you want in the PDF document.