Select Range(s) from Menu/Dialog

[bilgetutak]

Hi All,
If it is a duplicate request or already existing feature, sorry.
Is it possible to have a dialog to have selection as range or ranges. Instead of click selecting the pages, it may speed up some selection processes.
A dialog similar to print page selection (as in many programs) might be an example of expected feature.
Thank you for the tool.

[dreua]

Neither duplicate request nor existing feature AFAIK.

However, there is the qpdf CLI which is quite powerful and allows you to do almost all kinds of operations on PDFs without the need for a GUI. Would that be a solution for your use case? (Bonus: you can automate recurring tasks with some scripting.)

[bilgetutak]

Thank you for confirming the status/response.

I actually have qpdf in my toolbox and have some bash scripts for automation tasks. This was more towards quick and non-CLI singular jobs.

[dreua]

Actually I already toyed with the idea before we even displayed page numbers / selections in the top or status bar:

If we want to make it extra fancy, it could even show selections of multiple pages ("1, 5, 99 of 100", "1-100 of 100" etc.) and double it as an input (insert 2-22) to select those pages... Well these are just some ideas, not sure if it is worth our time really.

Originally posted by @dreua in #261 (comment)

I think evince has the the page display and goto combined in the status bar. If we are going to implement it, this would be my preferred UI.

Also relevant: #262 #268