Cover pages serve their purpose when documents are routed through a process — fax cover sheets, transmittal letters, internal title pages. Once the document arrives, the cover is dead weight.
Deleting it is two clicks in Flint.
Standard one-page cover
Open delete PDF pages, drop the file. Click page 1. Hit delete. Save. The document now starts at what was originally page 2.
Multi-page cover
Some covers are several pages — title, copyright, dedication, then the real content. Range-select '1-4' (or whatever covers the cover). Delete. Save. Document starts at page 5 of the original, now renumbered as page 1.
Save the cover separately first
If you want to keep the cover for records, split into 'cover' and 'body' before deleting. Two files: keep both. The cover is yours; the body is what you share.
Replace with your own cover
Delete their cover, then merge your cover with the deletion result. The combined file has your cover on top and the original body underneath. Useful for re-branding incoming PDFs before distribution.
FAQ
Will deleting page 1 break the table of contents?
TOC entries with internal hyperlinks remap correctly. Page numbers typed into the TOC text don't update — regenerate the TOC if accuracy matters.
Can I just hide the cover instead of deleting?
Cover hiding isn't a PDF feature. Delete it, or split it out.
Does the original file get changed?
No. Flint outputs a new file. Original on disk is untouched.
What about a cover with watermarks?
Delete still removes the page entirely, watermark and all. No content survives.
Cover off, document on its own. Delete the cover.