[Tex/LaTex] How to preserve hyperlinks in a PDF that is a subset of the pages in a larger PDF

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I would like to send my colleague just part of a document. The document includes hyperlinks from the hyperref package for clickable cross-referencing within my document.

I have tried to create a PDF that is a subset of the pages in the larger PDF file by using the "print to file" feature in evince. It works to create a PDF with just some of the pages, but it does not preserve the hyperlinks from hyperref. How can I create a PDF with just a subset of the pages from the original PDF yet preserve the hyperlinks?

UPDATE 2: Though Adam Liter's solution works for me, for a (preferable) solution within LaTex see Heiko Oberdiek' answer below.

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For a non-TeX solution: you can use the command line tool pdftk to splice up the original PDF and make a new PDF with just a subset of the pages from the original PDF. This will preserve the hyperlinks from the original PDF.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to preserve hyperlinks in included PDF

You can not simply mix two PDF files. You have to preserve PDF document structure. In the simply case links (PDF annotations) are dropped.

You can try the PAX project, which trys to extract and reinsert the PDF annotations.

[Tex/LaTex] Hyperlink with answers package

You can use the \hyperlink, \hypertarget mechanism provided by the hyperref package. A little example:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{answers}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newcounter{moncompteur}
\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{ex}{%
  \hyperlink{ex:\theex}{Exercise}\hypertarget{sol:\theex}{}}
\Newassociation{sol}{Soln}{corr}
\renewenvironment{Soln}[1]
  {\par\bigskip\noindent{\bfseries \hypertarget{ex:#1}{}\hyperlink{sol:#1}{Solution  of exercise #1}}\quad}
  {\par\bigskip}

\begin{document}
\Opensolutionfile{corr}[ans1]
\section{Problems}
\begin{ex}
First exercise.
\begin{sol}
First solution.
\end{sol}
\end{ex}

\begin{ex}
Second exercise.
\begin{sol}
Second solution.
\end{sol}
\end{ex}
\Closesolutionfile{corr}
\section{Solutions}
\input{ans1}
\end{document}

Note that I modified the definition of the ex theorem-like structure using \theoremstyle{definition} from the amsthm package and removed the counter moncompteur.

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