How to delete pages from a PDF on a Mac.

A woman sitting at a desk deletes pages from a PDF on a Mac laptop.

Remove unneeded pages from a PDF through a simple series of steps on your Mac, for any type of solo or group project, with Acrobat online services.

Your creative team may have lots of different ideas in one PDF, but now you need to decide what to keep and what to toss. When you make your decision, it’s easy to delete pages from PDF, leaving only the best idea. You can delete pages natively in Preview or use Acrobat online services.

How to delete pages from PDFs in Preview.

Removing PDF pages in Preview is quick and doesn’t require a browser. To delete pages from a PDF on a Mac, follow these steps.

  1. Open your PDF in the Preview app.
  2. Select the page you want to delete.
  3. If you don’t see the sidebar to select a page, choose View > Thumbnails.
  4. Press Delete or choose Edit from the menu bar and then Delete.

Your unnecessary PDF pages will be deleted, as well as the annotations attached to those pages. You can now go ahead to interact with, share, or edit PDF on Mac as usual.

How to delete PDF pages on Mac

Remove unneeded pages from a PDF through a simple series of steps on your Mac with Acrobat online services.

  1. To begin, go to Acrobat’s delete PDF pages tool and click Select A File, or drag and drop the PDF into the drop zone.
  2. From here, the file uploads and then you’ll need to sign in to Adobe or another service to continue.
  3. To delete one page from the displayed thumbnails, click the trashcan icon. To delete many pages at once, click the checkmark box on each page and then click the trashcan in the top toolbar.
  4. Next, click Save and rename the file. Now you can download the file or share it with others via a link or email.

If you want to do more than delete pages while the page thumbnails are visible, you can also rotate pages clockwise or counterclockwise and reorder pages in the PDF.

Your PDF is now ready for the next phase of your project.

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