Save each page as separate PDF file in Pages '09

pfm,

Print or Export the Pages doc to PDF. Open the PDF file in Preview and chop it up there.

The slickest way to do this is to Print > Open in Preview from Pages. Then in Preview, View Thumbnails in the Sidebar. Click on a thumbnail that you want to separate and Edit > Copy, File > New from Clipboard. Or if you wish, Command-C, Command-N. Now you have a new 1-page PDF.

Jerry

Open the .pdf in Preview .app.

+Menu > View > Sidebar+

Down the bottom of the sidebar is a tiny icon of boxes and lines, click on this to show the thumbnails.

You can now drag the thumbnails of each page to a location in the Finder and each will become an individual .pdf.

Peter

When I do this I do not get a PDF, I get a "Picture clipping".

I want a PDF.

It helps if you state your system and hardware in your User Profile.

However I deduce that you are still using OSX 10.5 or earlier where a bug stops you getting the .pdf.

In this case you will have to take the slighter longer route of copying each page and creating a new document (command n) in Preview app. and then saving (command s) that as a pdf.

Peter

However I deduce that you are still using OSX 10.5

I use both 10.5 and 10.6.

10.5 works a little better with iMovie 06 and iDVD 09. If not for this I would use 10.6 only.

Then it works with 10.6.2 and above.

The initial versions of 10.6 had the reverse bug, you could drag pdfs to the desktop but not for example to Pages.

The 10.6.2 update fixed this. Now you can do both and it works exactly as you expect.

Peter