#!/bin/sh
# Select a range of pages from a PDF file.
# Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>
# Based on: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-extract-pages-pdf

first="$1"
last="$2"
input="$3"
output="$4"

if [ "$output" = "" ]; then
	echo "Usage: pdfselect FIRST LAST INPUT.pdf OUTPUT.pdf"
	exit 1
fi

exec gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
	-dFirstPage="$first" \
	-dLastPage="$last" \
	-sOutputFile="$output" \
	"$input"