How to remove pages from a PDF document on Mac OS X to print?

1. Copy your document.
2. Open it with Preview.
3. Open the Draw with (command+Shift+D) OR (command+Alt+2).
4. Select the pages you don't want.
5. Delete it with (command+backspace).

You can see more about Preview at this page.

From @Nicholas J. Matiasz: In Preview 8.0 (OS X Yosemite 10.10.1), open the Thumbnails view with (alt+command+2). To delete specific pages, select the appropriate thumbnails and press (delete).

With homebrew you may install poppler:

brew install poppler

You could then use pdfseparate to extract single pages from a pdf document. For instance, the command:

pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf

would create files: sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf. Using switches -f and -l you could specify start and end page to extract.

Similar solutions can be build with use of imagemagic and pdftk.

Alternatiev approach: Just print the pages you want.

• Open up the printing dialog in your favorite PDF-Reader and open up the print dialog.
• set the pages to print by givong the page numbers you need (ie. 1-3,5,7-12,15 for printing only pages 1 through 3, 5, 7 through 12 and 15).
• hit the print button and be happy.