I'm used to MS Word, so this may be a Pages issue. I am trying to import a .PDF file into a Pages document. When I do this, it is coming in as an image. I want the icon not the image. It also appears that even the image only brings in the first page. This is so easy in MS Word. Please tell me it can be done in pages. I don't want to have to purchase MS Word again.
Microsoft had no part in developing Pages, and coming from Word, you will immediately note that Pages is not a Word clone, or terribly portable document format. Although you can drag/drop a multi-page PDF onto a Pages document, only the first page will appear, and the remaining simply increase the size of the Pages document with no benefit. There is no means to transform that PDF object display into an Adobe PDF icon from within Pages. However...
If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader 11, or Adobe Acrobat Reader DC installed, you can right-click on the application icon, and click through Contents and Resources folders to get at the respective, but different PDF .icns icon files.
Reader 11 Reader DC
You can then option-drag (copy) the .icns file to your Desktop, and double-click it to open in Preview. The .icns file is a 225KB collection of different size individual icons that are either 144 dpi, or 72 dpi at different width x height. Once the .icns is open in Preview, I would select the third thumbnail (512 x 512 @ 144 dpi), and then export as full quality .jpeg (or PDF) to the Desktop. Then, you can simply drag/drop onto the open Pages document. This will add 78KB to the document.
Microsoft had no part in developing Pages, and coming from Word, you will immediately note that Pages is not a Word clone, or terribly portable document format. Although you can drag/drop a multi-page PDF onto a Pages document, only the first page will appear, and the remaining simply increase the size of the Pages document with no benefit. There is no means to transform that PDF object display into an Adobe PDF icon from within Pages. However...
If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader 11, or Adobe Acrobat Reader DC installed, you can right-click on the application icon, and click through Contents and Resources folders to get at the respective, but different PDF .icns icon files.
Reader 11 Reader DC
You can then option-drag (copy) the .icns file to your Desktop, and double-click it to open in Preview. The .icns file is a 225KB collection of different size individual icons that are either 144 dpi, or 72 dpi at different width x height. Once the .icns is open in Preview, I would select the third thumbnail (512 x 512 @ 144 dpi), and then export as full quality .jpeg (or PDF) to the Desktop. Then, you can simply drag/drop onto the open Pages document. This will add 78KB to the document.
" I want the icon not the image."
Do you really want "the icon", an image that is a symbol identifying the file,
or do you mean you want to insert a pdf file, which can be opened from within Pages by (double?) clicking the icon that comes along with the file?
The first is possible. The simplest way is to take a screen shot of the icon, then insert that file or paste that copied image into the Pages document.
The second is not supported by Pages.
Regards,
Barry
Thanks. It was #2 and I was afraid it was not supported. Although I seem to have the same issue in MS Word on another mac but not on a Windows machine. This is a bummer as my daughter has a requirement to embed the files as an icon on her assignments. Looks like I’ll have to go back to the old Windows machine.
Do you have access to Office 2016 or 2019 for Mac? How does Word cooperate with your goal there?
Of course, if your daughter's school requires MS Office (Word), then using Pages would be counter-purpose to those requirements.
tony38 wrote:
ThI seem to have the same issue in MS Word on another mac but not on a Windows machine.
You might try the free Word clone LibreOffice and see if it does what is required in this case.
Importing .PDF as an Icon In Pages
