Adam Fields (work stuff) - Converting Pages files to HTML

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Converting Pages files to HTML

For some reason, Apple removed the “Save As…. HTML” option from recent versions of Pages, and wants you to go through iWeb instead. I found that to be fairly cumbersome, and iWeb seems to want you to make a whole formatted site instead of just dealing with an individual page. I tried converting through .doc or .pdf as well, but the results were pretty terrible. The best solution I’ve found so far is saving as a .rtf from Pages, and then using the built-in command line textutil tool to convert that to html. You lose some of the semantic style structure, but other than that the conversion seems pretty clean.

$ man textutil

for more details. There are a number of options, including format, encoding, etc…

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