James's idea to print to the PDF driver is interesting, but it won't let you select a preset or make any other adjustments. Uwe's idea of using a spreadsheet or some way to generate a list of odd or even numbers works only if the pages are numbered with plain Arabic numbers (and you need to know the document's extent). That leaves Barb's idea of a script, see below.
To use it, open the document you want to export and run the script. At the prompt, type odd or even and click OK. The script copies a string with page numbers (rectos or versos) to the clipboard.
Then export the document, and copy the page string into the 'Range:' field.
(Unfortunately it's not possible to pre-set or pre-fill the PDF export dialog, so the script plugs the string in a temporary text frame, copies its content, and removes it. Rather than removing the frame the script undoes its addition so that it leaves no footprint in the document.)
(function () {
var reply = prompt ('Enter odd or even',
'odd', 'Print odd or even pages');
if (!reply) {
exit();
}
if (reply.toLowerCase() === 'odd') {
start = 0;
} else if (reply === 'even') {
start = 1;
} else {
exit();
}
var s = '';
var pp = app.activeDocument.pages.
everyItem().getElements();
for (var i = start; i < pp.length; i=i+2) {
s += pp[i].name + ',';
}
var frame = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add ({
contents: s.replace(/,$/,''),
});
frame.parentStory.paragraphs[0].select();
app.copy();
app.activeDocument.undo();
}());
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