Apple Pages Document Converter
In case you do not have access to a Mac to be able to use the export feature, you can use Apple’s iCloud website to convert a Pages document into the Word format. Here’s the procedure: Using iCloud to Convert a Pages Document to Word Format. You must have an account on iCloud to be able to use the following guide.
Pages is a powerful word processor that lets you create stunning documents, and comes included with most Apple devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team can work together from anywhere, whether they’re on Mac, iPad or iPhone, or using a PC.
From the start, Pages places you in the perfect creative environment. It puts all the right tools in all the right places, so it’s easy to choose a look, customize fonts, personalize text styles and add beautiful graphics. And everyone collaborating on a document has access to the same powerful features.
Start with something beautiful.
Choose from over 70 beautiful Apple‑designed templates, and customize your reports, letters and other documents any way you like. And, if you’ve ever dreamed of writing a book or fairy tale, it’s easy to create interactive stories right inside Pages.
- Convert Apple Pages File to Microsoft Word Documents. If you have to share the Apple Pages document with colleague or friends, you need to make sure that it’s a Word file and not the Pages one.
- A pages file is a word processing document created by Pages, the free word processor supplied with Apple computers as part of the iWork office suite. If your document has a filename ending in.pages, it is a pages file. Apple (Mac) desktop and lapt File extension:.pages More information and converters for pages.
Make progress you can see.
Track changes, add highlights and have threaded conversations with your team. Your edits are saved automatically.
Stunning results. Effortlessly.
Liven up your text by filling it with colour gradients or images. And take the entire page to the next level by adding photos, galleries, audio clips, video, math equations, charts or more than 700 customizable shapes.
What’s new in Pages.
Skim through in style.
Now, on your iPhone and iPad, you can read through your document, zoom in and out, and interact with it — without accidentally changing anything.
Play videos right in your documents.
Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in Pages, without the need to open a web browser. Simply add a link, and play your web video inside your document or book.
Captions and titles stick with objects.
Easily add text to images, videos and shapes. Your words will automatically stay with objects — if and when you move them.
You don’t work in one place on just one device. The same goes for Pages. Work seamlessly across all your Apple devices. The documents you create using a Mac or iPad will look the same on an iPhone or web browser — and vice versa.
You can also work on documents stored on iCloud or Box using a PC.
Work together in the same document, from across town or across the world. You can see your team’s edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. Just click the Collaborate button and invite people to join.
Use Apple Pencil on your iPad to sketch, illustrate and create documents. Draw and fine-tune your idea, then press play to watch each stroke animate onto the page. Plus, with Smart Annotation, your edits stay with the marked-up text, making it easy for you and your team to incorporate changes.
Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft Word? Pages makes it simple. You can save Pages documents as Word files. Or import and edit Word documents right in Pages.
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The easy way, via PDF and Markzware PDF2DTP!
Need to get Apple Pages layouts into Adobe InDesign? You can with conversion software, MarkzwarePDF2DTP. First, export or “print” your Pages document to PDF. Then, use PDF2DTP for InDesign CS6 to effectively convert Pages to InDesign! See how in this “Apple Pages to InDesign Converter” video tutorial:
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Hi, everybody. David Dilling from Markzware. In this demonstration, we’re going to show you how we can get an Apple Pages document into InDesign, using PDF as the medium and PDF2DTP as the tool or converter to help make this happen.
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Here, on my Mac desktop, you see a folder I have of an Apple Pages document. In there, I have the Pages document itself, which, you see, looks very similar to a PDF in the icon, which I will double-click. See, I don’t have Pages on my machine, but it will open in Apple Preview, and you can see, in this test file, we have added many different features and functions from Pages: pie charts, other sorts of charts, symbols, text, arrows, pretty much you name it. See, here’s some nice… some nice images with text runaround, etc. So, this is how it looks within Pages, more or less.
Now, many people have asked,
“How can we get Apple Pages into InDesign?”
A Pages to InDesign converter or conversion filter we don’t directly have, however, if you export your Pages file as a PDF, which we can open up here, also in Preview, and what you notice is an interesting little bug.
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The Pages file previews without the proper shading and without the numbers within the pie chart (no text displaying). Very interesting. So, you see in the PDF the way it really looks within Pages. Okay.
So, keep an eye on some of these things, and we’re going to come back and look at this later. So, how do we get then this Apple Pages PDF into Adobe InDesign?
Well, for that, we’ll need to jump over into InDesign. In this case, I’m using CS6, and up top is a Markzware menu item.
There we can choose PDF2DTP, amongst our other products, and we can choose Convert PDF. So, now we go into the folder, where the files are. You can see the PDF right here, and if we select it and click Open, we’re now able to effectively get this Pages document right into Adobe InDesign via the PDF format and Markzware’s PDF2DTP, a plugin for Adobe InDesign CS5, CS5.5, or CS6, as you’re seeing in this case. Click Open. You could also say Import or Convert. Convert’s better, because we’ll see we’re going to make that PDF. We’re gonna get all the layers, and colors, and font information, and 3D, shaping, and shadowing, all right in.
There, we see it, like a hot knife cutting through soft butter, we convert this file, and there you have it. The file that was just before in Apple Pages,exported to a PDF by a colleague, and now I need it in InDesign. And, with Markzware’s PDF2DTP, that’s all 100% possible.
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By the way, there’s a lot of advanced settings that can help make the conversion even more exact. I recommend that you tinker around with these settings in the PDF2DTP preferences, to make sure you get the best data conversion possible.
PDF2DTP will also save to a job folder and extract all images from the file. I’ll show you that in a moment. Alright, so now we see that we get the full conversion, and you’ll see that it looks almost exactly like the original.
Now, I say almost, because there are a couple little things, and that is a reality of life. PDF format is very tricky. It’s very chaotic, compared to the native DTP or desktop publishing formats, and, thus, some reworking will be needed. And I’ll show you what those are by opening the…
So, now, I’ll open up the PDF here, on this side, InDesign file, a little bit on this side. Now, what do you see right away? Well, you see right away that it’s not that bad, the first page. We get the image, we get the text running around the image, just like it should, but you see the table, although it converts, and tables are also very tricky.
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That’s pretty cool. What you do see is that the stylization of the colorization did not carry over. So, that’s something we’ll need to add back in, in InDesign, a little touch up. Now, I was most impressed with this, with this funky chart here from Pages, that it came right on over into InDesign, perfectly. Very impressed with that.
And you see, it’s just an image that you can move around and replace. You’ll see the two, the text layer and image layer. So, that is pretty darn cool. That’s going to save us a lot of time.
Page 2, you’ll see, is also an excellent conversion via the converter, but I’m highly impressed with this Pages via PDF to InDesign, because it’s really working great.
The shapes also worked perfectly. You see the arrow, the text, the shapes, the arrow with the same text here, arrows with the same text here. Very, very nice. A block of text, and we have here, then, images with text runaround. Perfect! What I want you to notice, because this is very… one of the key things the Markzware engineers spent a lot of time, and when I say a lot of time, we’re talking, well, years to get this text flow exactly the same.
This is not easy to do, getting PDF text into InDesign in exactly the same exact format and spacing and H&Js. Really, that’s really important.
Now, here, we have another table. The same problem with this table is the coloring disappeared. That said, we get all of the symbols coming right on over. So, this is pretty cool. Once again, extremely useful, and very, very, very impressed with that. Did a little bit of touching up with the colorization there.
Here, we have some images with rotation. See, that comes in, right on over. Fantastic! And, the last page, we have text with an image placed with some nice effects and it all stays.
And look at that, even InDesign preflight says no errors. Now, I’d be more curious what Markzware’s FlightCheck says when we preflight it, but we’ll leave that for another time.
Alright, so that is it, folks. That’s how you get an Apple Pages file right into Adobe InDesign with Markzware’s PDF2DTP, a great way to convert PDF files and native Adobe Illustrator files right into InDesign, available for InDesign and QuarkXPress and available for Mac or Windows.
PDF2DTP is extremely affordable and works fantastic, as you just saw here, and will save you countless hours, and thus money, in recreating desktop publishing layouts, in this case, a Pages file. It could be Corel Draw. It could be Microsoft Word, and via PDF, gets it right back into a desktop publishing environment you’re familiar with, in this case, Adobe InDesign CS6.
One last thing to show you, as I talked about, the job folder. In the job folder, there, you’ll see the two versions of PDF2DTP. I have one for QuarkXPress and one for InDesign. And when I go in the one for InDesign, you’ll see all the jobs I’ve converted over the last couple months here, and, if we search by date, we’ll get this here test folder, that we… that test file we just converted, and you’ll see that we get all the images extracted out and the InDesign file, which we’re working on now.
So, extremely useful. And these, you know, just to show you, you can now open up these. There’s that. There’s that pie chart. Look how beautiful it is. And look how great it converted over.
If you need more information on Markzware’s PDF2DTP, just cruise on over to markzware.com today. Go to the Products section, PDF2DTP. Here, you’ll find a more detailed video, and many other video tutorials, and a host of more information on PDF2DTP and how valuable it can be for your workflow.
Convert any PDF from any source file right into Adobe InDesign or even QuarkXPress. Click here to buy now. This has been David Dilling for Markzware on Pages to InDesign converter via PDF with Markzware’s PDF2DTP in InDesign CS6. Have a great day!
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