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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview Apps
Snow Leopard only hintThe function to delete the selected page (or pages) from a PDF file disappeared from the Edit menu of Preview in Snow Leopard. Even worse, it was replaced (using the same Command-Delete shortcut) with a command that moves the entire PDF document to the trash.

You can, however, still delete selected page(s) through an undocumented keyboard shortcut. Hold down Shift-Command-Delete with one or more pages selected, and only those pages will be deleted from the document. Page numbering, however, does not update to reflect this deletion until you (re)save the file (in 10.5, the numbering updated instantly upon deletion).
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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview
Authored by: noworryz on Fri, Nov 6 2009 at 8:25AM PST

The Delete function to delete a page from a PDF has not been removed from the Edit menu in Snow Leopard. It has no keyboard shortcut shown, however.

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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview
Authored by: zikman on Fri, Nov 6 2009 at 8:33AM PST
if you have the page or pages highlighted in the sidebar, you can just hit the delete key and it works the same as the 'delete' option under the edit menu.

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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview
Authored by: hankk on Fri, Nov 6 2009 at 9:46AM PST
Agreed -- just highlight the page and hit the Delete key. Apple simplified the command and it's more intuitive now.

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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview
Authored by: justice on Fri, Nov 6 2009 at 11:46AM PST
It's great that they simplified it, but I think they made two mistakes in the process. First, they remapped the old shortcut to a destructive command (WTF?). Second, they didn't note the new shortcut on the menu. I went for several weeks after Snow Leopard was released before I figured out that I could still do a delete from the keyboard.

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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview
Authored by: notmicro on Fri, Nov 6 2009 at 6:00PM PST
Too bad it isn't scriptable.

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10.6: Delete selected page(s) from a PDF in Preview
Authored by: awado on Sat, Nov 7 2009 at 11:04AM PST
Assign a keyboard shortcut to that menu entry and you can script it.

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