Export each N pages to a file

[Matth7878]

Right now you can export each pages of a pdf to create multiple pdf files. But you're stuck with only one page per pdf.

Would it be possible to allow user to set how many pages he wants in each created files? It would really help when you need to create a files for every 2 pages for instance.

[dreua]

I'm sure one can easily automate that with a few lines of Python and pikepdf. (It might even be possible to do that with the CLI of qpdf, pdftk or such.)
I'm not sure we will implement that in PDF Arranger because it sounds like a rare use case to me, which needs time to implement and maintain and will clutter the UI even more.

As usual with feature requests like this, I'd suggest we give this 3 weeks. If nothing productive comes up it should be closed and tagged stale feature.

[dreua]

Qpdf can do this very easily, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64915669/4529404
This should work on all platforms, just omit the .exe if you are on Linux / Mac 😉

[Matth7878]

One could say that all others features like rotation can easily be done with other tools, IMHO. 😕

About clutter I believe UI for exports would be better without doing too much. Instead of a menu with 3 subs menu acting as a way to choose what option for your export you want to use there could be only one entry which would open a custom dialog to let user set his options :

• selection or all pages,
• one file or multiple files,
• related to this FR : how many pages per file
• potentially exposing other used parameters

I understand if it's too much to maintain. For that I can't argue and my ability to code is way too low to implement it myself. 😕

For other people looking, beside command line tools suggested in previous comment, you can also use PDFSam to have something with an UI. Pdf Arranger is better but I keep PDFSam installed for this feature.

[jeromerobert]

That's easy, let's do it.