MacOS X: How to convert a number of Pages documents to Word format
Ran into this a couple of weeks ago. If you have someone who ran Pages and needs to convert their library of documents to Word format, do the following. This requires iWork ’09.
- Open script editor and paste in the script listed below.
- Save this script as an application
- Drag all your Pages documents on top of the script application. Word documents will be created in the same directory as the original document.
- Enjoy!
The script:
on open theFiles
tell application “System Events”
if process “Pages” exists then
display dialog “whoops, please close Pages before running droplet!”
end if
end tell
tell application “Archive Utility”
activate
delay 1
close front document
set theType to “doc”
set s to theType as string
set theLocation to choose folder
set theLocation to theLocation as string
repeat with aFile in theFiles
open aFile
set asType to “Microsoft Word 97 – 2004 document”
set docName to name of front document
– Remove .pages extension.
set prevTIDs to AppleScript‘s text item delimiters
set AppleScript‘s text item delimiters to “.pages”
– Add .doc extension.
set docNameNew to first text item of docName & “.doc”
set AppleScript‘s text item delimiters to prevTIDs
– Save file to Desktop.
set docPathAndName to theLocation & docNameNew
save front document as asType in docPathAndName
try
close front document saving no
end try
end repeat
quit
end tell
end open
April 11th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Is there a known way to convert Pages documents to _any_ other format on other platforms?
April 24th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
I don’t think there is – the format is XML based so something could be whipped up I imagine…