I want to save each page of a multi-page document into separate files, specifically pdfs. Is there an automation for this? I was using the "mail-merge" function, and it worked but then created one single file with over 100 pages that I would need individual pdfs for.
With more investigation, the only content that you can gain access to on a given page in an open Pages document is just body text when using AppleScript. And then you cannot export it using the Pages export feature. A separate handler must be made to send that body text to a print to PDF file solution. So if you have other content than just text, it will not qualify as body text and would be lost in the preceding activity.
It would be better to export the Pages document to PDF, and then write each Page of the PDF to a separate page numbered PDF. I have AppleScript code that can split an exported PDF into numbered PDF pages. At the moment, it writes these to the Desktop, but I can add a output folder selection, where the PDF, and its split pages can be written to that folder selection. This approach preserves the visual content of the exported PDF.
eli52 Said:
"How to export each page of a document as a separate file in Apple Pages?: I want to save each page of a multi-page document into separate files, specifically pdfs. Is there an automation for this? I was using the 'mail-merge' function, and it worked but then created one single file with over 100 pages that I would need individual pdfs for."
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Have an All-In-One Device?:
If you have an All-In-On deice (printer/scanner/copier/fax), then print all of these out, and then scan with that. Seems like it may be a waste of paper, but at least you'll have a printout copy you may need.
Pages exports one PDF document. There is no feature in the application to split that PDF into separate page entities.
It might be able to be automated from the exported PDF.
Use the print option to create single page pdfs.
How to export each page of a document as a separate file in Apple Pages?
