
# - ghostscript, qpdf, poppler-utils, and libnotify-bin are available via # You need to install at least one of the three backends supported by this script. # DEPENDENCIES: ghostscript/qpdf/cpdf poppler-utils yad libnotify-bin # - can choose from three different backends: ghostscript, qpdf, cpdf # - preserves _all_ attributes of your original PDF file and does not compress # FEATURES: - simple GUI based on YAD, an advanced Zenity fork. # to be used as a file manager script/addon (e.g. # It provides a simple way to extract a page range from a PDF document and is meant # OVERVIEW: PDFextract is a simple PDF extraction script based on Ghostscript/qpdf/cpdf. and based on three different backends that are capable of preserving all attributes of the original file.This is obviously covering PDF files as the outcome document, but you can use a similar export process to save Pages files to Word DOC format on the Mac as well as some other file formats, including Plain Text, Rich Text, and older Pages compatibility formats too.Īnother approach that would get the same end result is to use the Mac Print to PDF feature, but going that route gives you less control over the resulting file quality, and you can’t set a password on the file if desired.I created a slightly more advanced script based on the tutorial linked to. * You can also choose to set a password for file during the export process if desired. The freshly created PDF file will be available at the location you chose. Give the PDF file a name, choose a location, then choose “Export” to save the Pages file as a PDF document.Adjust the quality settings if desired, then choose “Next” *.Pull down the “File” menu and choose “Export To” then select “PDF”.Open the file into Pages that you want to save as a PDF.It’s quite simple: How to Save a Pages File as PDF on Mac The approach discussed here will take any Pages file and save it as a PDF, this basically converts the Pages document to a PDF document through an export process.
