On a related note, if you’d rather dodge the AppleScripting all together then you could try out our handy Pages Automator Actions. Download Article Click the File menu choose Export To. 2 Choose the Export option on the File menu. You can also open Pages first and select the document. You can do this by double-clicking the Pages file on your Mac. Note that it’s up to you to make sure that the documents you drop actually are Pages documents – the script doesn’t check and may error if you drop the wrong type of documents. Download Article Open the Pages file you want to convert to a PDF. Save the workflow and you should now have an app that you can drop Pages documents on. Set theName to (characters 1 thru -7 of theDocName) as textĮxport theDoc as PDF to file ((theFilesFolder & theName & '.pdf') as text) straight to PDF without having to go through a converter. Set theFilesFolder to (folder of theFile) as text Method 1 - Using Microsoft Word to convert documents to PDF. Replace all the purple text in the action with the following AppleScript: Next, drag a “Run AppleScript” workflow into your workflow so you have something that looks like this:

The tool will instantly upload and transform the file into a PDF.

Let’s look at how to do that.įirst, launch Automator (you’ll find it in your Mac’s Applications folder). How to convert to PDF from other file types: Upload your file to our online PDF converter. Luckily, Pages is AppleScriptable so we can make our own action. Unfortunately, Pages doesn’t ship with Automator actions (although there are some funky third party options)

The obvious way to make such an app is with Automator. Select PAGES file from your computer using the browse function. It’d be great to make an app which we could drop our Pages files on and have them made into PDFs. In the spirit of sharing the knowledge, here’s how we did it. Recently we were asked how to use Automator to convert Apple Pages documents into PDFs.

How to convert pages to pdf