Making a copy of a vector pdf - best practice

[AvivEsh]

Hi,

I need to take a pdf a create a new one, where the new pdf has the same vector elements, but maybe a subset of them.
The question is, what is the best practice to create the new pdf?

1. should I create a new pdf and draw on it the wanted elements from the original pdf?
2. copy the original pdf and erasing the unwanted elements from the copied version.
   I am not sure what is better, would be happy to know about your thoughts regarding that

[JorjMcKie]

Choose option 1. We cannot selectively remove single drawing commands from PDF's source.
Be aware however, that there is no guarantee that PyMuPDF's drawing capabilities will always reproduce the original faithfully.
Several aspects / features of what can be done with PDF's command syntax cannot be mapped to PyMuPDF's Shape methods. For example, we neither support clipping nor shading ... and this is an incomplete list.

[AvivEsh]

Thanks again