Recently we were asked how to use Automator to convert Apple Pages documents into PDFs. In the spirit of sharing the knowledge, here’s how we did it.
It’d be great to make an app which we could drop our Pages files on and have them made into PDFs. The obvious way to make such an app is with Automator. Unfortunately, Pages doesn’t ship with Automator actions (although there are some funky third party options)
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Luckily, Pages is AppleScriptable so we can make our own action. Let’s look at how to do that.
First, launch Automator (you’ll find it in your Mac’s Applications folder). Select “Application”.
Next, drag a “Run AppleScript” workflow into your workflow so you have something that looks like this:
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Replace all the purple text in the action with the following AppleScript:
on run {input, parameters}
repeat with theFile in input
tell application 'Pages'
set theDocName to name of theDoc
close theDoc
end tell
Save the workflow and you should now have an app that you can drop Pages documents on.
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.
On a related note, if you’d rather dodge the AppleScripting all together then you could try out our handy Pages Automator Actions.
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We’re pleased to announce a new tool to help you integrate Apple’s Pages app into your Automator workflows. Pages Automator Actions allows you to create workflows, apps, droplets and services to make those repetitive, time consuming tasks a breeze.
Whether it’s batch converting documents to ePubs or PDFs, or finding and replacing text in the body text of a collection of documents, the handy actions can save you time and effort.
Of course, since Pages Automator Actions is designed to work with Automator, no knowledge of AppleScript or any other type of coding is necessary. If you can drag and drop then the rest is easy.
Included actions are:
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