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Pages to PDF

The .pages file a Mac sent you, as a PDF that opens on Windows, Android or the web.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert Pages to PDF

  1. Drop the .pages file.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the PDF.

What happens to your file

LibreOffice reads the Pages package through libetonyek — the Index/*.iwa records Pages ’13 and later write — and lays the document out with its own engine, so a font Pages had and this server has not is replaced by a metric twin where one exists.

Comments, tracked changes and Pages-only shapes are not rendered; body text, headings, lists, tables and pictures are.

Questions

Older Pages files (’09 and before)?

Not yet — those are an XML package libetonyek reads differently. Export from Pages if you have a Mac.

Why do the line breaks differ?

Fonts. Helvetica Neue and San Francisco are Apple’s; where they are absent a metric twin or a close face is used. For an exact copy, export the PDF from Pages itself.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "pdf"
    }
  }'

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