Page Selection

The -pages flag allows you to select specific pages for processing when using the following commands:

Syntax

The value of this flag is a string which is a comma separated list of expressions containing page numbers or page number ranges:

expression	page selection
even	include even pages
odd	include odd pages
#	include page #
#-#	include page range
!#	exclude page #
!#-#	exclude page range
#-	include page # - last page
-#	include first page - page #
!#-	exclude page # - last page
!-#	exclude first page - page #
l	include last page
nl	exclude last page
#-l-1	include page # - (last page-1)

You can use either ! or n for negating an expression.
! needs to be escaped with single quotes on the command line.

Examples

Select the first three pages, page 5 and page 7 up to the end of the document:

-pages -3,5,7-

Select pages 4 to 7 but exclude page 6:

-pages '4-7,!6'

Select all pages other than page 5:

-pages '1-,!5' 

Select all odd pages and exclude page 1 and the last page:

-pages odd,n1,nl

Select all even pages and ensure the last page:

-pages even,l