Virus in Pages document

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Virus in Pages document

I recently made a pages document that I needed to upload to a website, but had to export to a PDF. After I exported it, the website now says the document contains a virus. This is actually the second time this has happened with this document, and I have deleted that version of the PDF and re-exported it. I also tried converting it to a word doc, which does fix the problem but then the format of the document is messed up and I don't have word so there's no way for me to fix the formatting because if I open it, I have to use pages which fixes the formatting problems.

Is there anyway I can repair this document in pages so it no longer has this virus?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 17, 2021 9:29 AM

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VikingOSX

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Feb 17, 2021 12:09 PM in response to annikafromminneapolis

Pages is not placing any so-called virus in an exported PDF. I could believe that anti-virus software on that website is reporting a false positive about that PDF, and it may be based on scanning the PDF internals and encountering something it does not understand, and thus triggers the false virus found behavior.

You could export to Word, and then use the free LibreOffice Suite to open that Word document and then export it as PDF. This would not be using Apple's PDF library, and cause the site software to shut up about a virus.

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