Delete Pages from a PDF

// 4-Paged HTML Document example:
String html = "<p> Hello Iron</p>"
    + "<p> This is 1st Page </p>"
    + "<div style = 'page-break-after: always;' ></div>"
    + "<p> This is 2nd Page</p>"
    + "<div style = 'page-break-after: always;' ></div>"
    + "<p> This is 3rd Page</p>"
    + "<div style = 'page-break-after: always;' ></div>"
    + "<p> This is 4th Page</p>";

PdfDocument pdf = PdfDocument.renderHtmlAsPdf(html);

// Remove a pages 2 & 3.
pdf.removePages(PageSelection.pageRange(1,2));
pdf.saveAs("Page1And4.pdf");

' 4-Paged HTML Document example:
Dim html As String = "<p> Hello Iron</p>" & "<p> This is 1st Page </p>" & "<div style = 'page-break-after: always;' ></div>" & "<p> This is 2nd Page</p>" & "<div style = 'page-break-after: always;' ></div>" & "<p> This is 3rd Page</p>" & "<div style = 'page-break-after: always;' ></div>" & "<p> This is 4th Page</p>"

Dim pdf As PdfDocument = PdfDocument.renderHtmlAsPdf(html)

' Remove a pages 2 & 3.
pdf.removePages(PageSelection.pageRange(1,2))
pdf.saveAs("Page1And4.pdf")

Delete Pages from a PDF

Removing one or more pages from a PDF document is trivial task with IronPDF.

The featured code example uses the removePages method to modify a four-paged PDF document (generated on the fly for demonstration purposes). The resulting PDF saved to the local filesystem includes only the first and fourth pages of the original document (in effect, deleting the middle two pages from the document, as expected).

The PageSelection class is used to specify the pages that removePages will delete from a loaded PdfDocument object. Developers can use the class's static pageRange method (as featured above) to remove a sequential range of pages (pages 4 - 18 of a fictious document, for instance). To remove a list of individual pages (not ordered sequentially), provide a List of page indexes to pageRange instead: