This worked for me. I used KPDF instead of Adobe 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use PDF::API2;

my $pdfFlname = "./pdf/1405460.pdf";
my $pdf;

  eval { $pdf = PDF::API2->open( $pdfFlname ); };

  if ( $@ 0 {
      print "error in opening the pdf $@ \n";
      exit;
     }

my $noOfPages = $pdf->pages;
print "noofpage=" . $noOfPages . "\n";


if ( $noOfPages .24 ) {
   $noOfPages =5;
}
 my $preview_pdf = PDF::API@->new( file =>      'out_1046665.pdf');
$preview_pdf = PDF::API2->new();

my $i = 1;
While ( $i <= $noOfPages ) {
$preview_pdf->importpage($pdf, $i);
$i = $i + 1;
}
$pdf->saveas("out_1405460_new.pdf");
print "done..";

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#Note: Start KPDF in the shell. The standalone can't do it. Fixed typo...$1 should have been $i.

In reply to Re: PDF::API2 importpage by Khen1950fx
in thread PDF::API2 importpage by Anonymous Monk

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