Apple

tell application "Pages"

set docName to name of front document

-- Remove .pages extension.

set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ".pages"

-- Add .pdf extension.

set docName to first text item of docName & ".pdf"

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs

-- Save file to Desktop.

set docPathAndName to (path to desktop as string) & docName

save front document as "SLDocumentTypePDF" in docPathAndName

set userInput to display dialog "Do you want to close this document?" buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 1

if the button returned of userInput is "Yes" then

close front document

else

tell application "Pages"

activate

end tell

end if

end tell

I have been able to reliably export PDFs from Pages with AppleScript for a number of versions (both OS and Pages). Under Mavericks I am unable to export to PDF.

The pertinent part of my script that is broken is:

set filesname to (path to desktop folder as string) & "grief." & "pdf"
tell application "Pages"
save document 1 in filesname
end tell

Pages gets as far as putting up an export progress bar and then freezes solid.

If I change pdf to rtf the script then works for that filetype.

Anyone else having this problem?

J