How to Export a Pages document as image (JPEG) and provide a filename without creating a new folder?

This is the same behavior as Pages v14.2 on Sequoia 15.1 when you choose Export > Image > Save… The filename on the Save panel is the folder name, so no need to add an extension to it as Pages places the image.jpeg in that folder. As this was a product team design decision to use an output folder for exported images, there is no means to directly export an image from Pages without an enclosing folder.

The simplest solution is to just deal with the issue and double-click that output folder to get at the images.

The Send a Copy on that Image export panel still attaches an unzipped folder to email, messages, or AirDrop, so no solution there.

One could export the Pages document to PDF (no folder) and then run an Apple Shortcut on that PDF to split the PDF pages into individual images. This would generate images into a containing folder to avoid them being sprayed all over the Desktop. So back to paragraph 2. The upside is the images are 300 DPI, not 72 DPI. I have already written that Shortcut if you want to go there.

And finally, you can politely send direct feedback to the Pages product team from the Pages application menu.

The Pages export option is named Images… and one has a choice of all, or specific pages, that will be exported into the Pages document named folder as individual document.1.jpeg ... document.n.jpeg images.

Alternatively, one can use the command line component of LibreOffice 24.8.2.1 to convert a single-page Pages (e.g. Pages v14.2) document that contains equations and text — but no images. This does not invoke Pages. The resulting image can be in the same Pages document location or a designated (--outdir) folder. For simplification, I have soft-linked the internal LibreOffice soffice binary into /usr/local/bin:

ln -s /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice /usr/local/bin/soffice
/usr/local/bin/soffice --headless --convert-to jpeg one-pager.pages
/usr/local/bin/soffice --headless --convert-to png one-pager.pages


Pages document:

The resultant jpeg generated by LibreOffice:

I think the expectation is that your Pages document contains more than one page.

Rather than create one very, very long (or tall?) JPEG file, Pages creates a folder and saves one JPEG per page.

Sure, for a single page document, the folder is superfluous, but it's kind of handy for multi-page documents.

Unfortunately there's no control over this behavior, other than post-processing (e.g. moving the file and deleting the empty folder)

As an addendum, I looked at the AppleScript scripting dictionary for Pages, and the ability to export as an image has been excluded from it.