Stirling-Tools
[Feature Request]: Enable to select which pages to split in “Split PDF into Sections”
Feature Description
“Split PDF into Sections” enables to split pages in for instance two: one for the lefthand part, one for the righthand part.
However, it splits every page. This feature request is about adding a page selection option, to split only the selected pages.
Why is this feature valuable?
A lot of of online PDFs based on printed publications are in this format:
- Single front cover
- Spreads for all the content, two actual pages per spread
- Single back cover
That can makes them hard to read on a e-reader, or to print into booklets. The spreads have to be split first.
However, using “Split PDF into Sections” would split the covers too, adding a lot of steps to build a correct PDFs afterwards (deleting the 4 split covers, retrieving the 2 full covers from the original PDF, merging and reorganising pages into yet another PDF, etc).
Adding a way to select pages (excluding first and last in this case), could make the matter much much easier.
Suggested Implementation
Add a field inside the “Split PDF into Sections” tool to specify which pages to apply the split to. Same kind of field that appears in other tools, with comma and/or dash separated numbers. Defaults to all. An extra preset (all except first and last) could also be added to cover the common use case described above.
Additional Information
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Hi @Frooodle , I wonder if this feature make sense to you? If yes, would it be alright to assign this issue to me? I’d be happy to work on implementing it. Thanks!
