Save Pages file as html?

No. TextEdit can do it, however.

How does textedit do this, now that Lion has no "save as" command? I've tried the new method (duplicate then save) but there are no options I can find for saving in html.

tks,

JS

jgoshawk wrote:

I've tried the new method (duplicate then save) but there are no options I can find for saving in html.

When I do duplicate then save, I get a File Format button which has Web Page (.html) among the options.

For a new document, which has not yet been saved, I get the same thing with Save.

Huh. I don't get a File Format button. The only pull-down is a Plain Text Encoding button:

Have you tried Format > Make Rich Text first?

Yup, that's it. RTF first.

Thanks!

JS

You can also export as RTF from Pages, then use the convert utility textutil in the Terminal. Locate the exported file, and type textutil -convert html foo.rtf (where the last argument is the filename you created with the export).

For more info, type man textutil in the Terminal.

Textutil is a useful utility.

For those that do not wish to drop into Terminal, here is a short Automator Folder action. In its present form, dragging one or multiple of the supported input file types onto the designated folder, will convert each into a like-named .html file.

Steps:

1. Create an arbitrary named folder on your Desktop. It can be elsewhere.

   I named this folder: file->html

2. Launch /Applications/Automator
   1. Select Folder Action and Choose.
   2. Select Actions > Utilities > Run Shell Script
   3. Drag and drop the Run Shell Script action into the larger workflow panel.
   4. Duplicate the content and settings from the following image in your action.

      Single-click to enlarge included image for improved clarity

   5. Save as file2html and exit Automator.
3. Locate your folder that you want to apply this action too.
   1. Select the folder from step 1 with the right mouse button.
   2. At the bottom of the menu, select Folder Actions Setup...
      1. At the bottom of the list of actions, choose the action.workflow that you just saved from Automator.

         In my example, it is file2html.workflow

      2. Check the following:
         1. Enable Folder Actions
         2. Actions
         3. Your folder action name
         4. In the right panel, check On for your action
      3. Quit Folder Actions
4. Drag and drop file(s) onto the folder from step 1 to convert to html.
5. Open with web browsert to verify.

I tested this by dragging and dropping three files together on to the folder: .rtf, .doc, and .odt.

All converted into their respective named .html files and were legible in Safari.

I have revised the previously posted folder action that converts supported textutil file formats into .html documents.

The bash shell script now does the following:

1. Compares dragged and dropped files against supported textutil file types for HTML conversion
2. Converts valid files to HTML within the folder
3. Invokes an AppleScript alert dialog from the bash shell that lists the invalid files encountered.

Files tested, singularly and in multiples:

1. Plain text - *.txt
2. MS Word 2003 (WordML) - *.xml
3. Revisable Text Format - *.rtf
4. MS Word - .doc
5. MS Word - .docx
6. OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer - *.odt

Here is the revised automator workflow script:

Errata:

if [[ ${#invalidLen[*]} == 0 ]]; then

should read:

if [[ ${#invalid[*]} -eq 0 ]]; then

Textutil did it's job - thanks so much for walking through these steps. I made a minor error in Automater by selecting the wrong destination file for the operation, but I caught the error and fixed it.

Now to see if I can speed up the Cocoa HTML Writer engine to do conversion on a series of many files 🙂