When saving a pages doc to pdf does it save the original or do I need to duplicate it first?
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Dragons88 wrote:
Thank you for that. If I have a saved doc, does exporting it to PDF delete the original though, so I can go back to edit it?
Printing or exporting a Pages or Keynote or Office document does not delete the original file, and the original content.
I’ve met very few non-trivial documents that were ever correct in the original edit, and needed no revision. Deleting the original (source) document would cause issues for most of us.
PDF documents are a snapshot of the contents of the source document, at the time of printing. Much of what makes a document editable is lost when printing, or when generating the PDF document. PDF documents are optimized for printing, and to a lesser extent for online viewing.
Editing a PDF file is problematic at best. Please don’t assume the PDF is useful for anything other than for viewing or printing, or for limited use with some Adobe-related and less-than-portable PDF-based extensions.
Dragons88 wrote:
Thank you for that. If I have a saved doc, does exporting it to PDF delete the original though, so I can go back to edit it?
Printing or exporting a Pages or Keynote or Office document does not delete the original file, and the original content.
I’ve met very few non-trivial documents that were ever correct in the original edit, and needed no revision. Deleting the original (source) document would cause issues for most of us.
PDF documents are a snapshot of the contents of the source document, at the time of printing. Much of what makes a document editable is lost when printing, or when generating the PDF document. PDF documents are optimized for printing, and to a lesser extent for online viewing.
Editing a PDF file is problematic at best. Please don’t assume the PDF is useful for anything other than for viewing or printing, or for limited use with some Adobe-related and less-than-portable PDF-based extensions.
MrHoffman has thoroughly addressed your question. Additionally…
When you first select a Pages template and see a blank document named "Untitled.pages," the first thing you should do, before entering any content, is manually save it and give it a meaningful document name. That does two things: 1) enables autosave of subsequent changes about every 10 seconds, and 2) begins document versioning.
Restore an earlier document version in Pages on Mac - Apple Support
Because of this versioning feature, I never duplicate a Pages document. That can lead to confusion.
I also have Apple's Time Machine backing up my Mac every hour it is powered on.
Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support
Dragons88 wrote:
When saving a pages doc to pdf does it save the original or do I need to duplicate it first?
You can save an editable Pages document as you want, either to Apple Pages format, Microsoft Office Word, or such.
Exporting the contents of the document to a printer is separate. PDF documents aren’t particularly editable.
Thank you for that. If I have a saved doc, does exporting it to PDF delete the original though, so I can go back to edit it?
When saving a Pages doc to PDF does it save the original or do I need to duplicate it first?
