Pages → PNG lays the document out and renders every page as a picture, which suits a one-page flyer or handout that has to go into a chat, a slide or a web page.
From real runs
| Element | Result | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| One image per page | Kept | A two-page report came back as two PNGs in one ZIP, numbered in page order; a single-page Pages 14.5 document came back as one PNG with no archive. |
| Pixel size | Changed | At the default 144 DPI an A4 page is 1191 × 1684 pixels and a Letter page 1224 × 1584. Raise dpi for print or set width for a fixed slot on a web page. |
| Layout | Changed | The image shows the page as our office engine laid it out, so a photo that lost its text wrap or a substitute font that moved a line break is baked into the picture. |
| Empty trailing pages | Changed | When the layout adds an empty last page, it becomes an image too: the iPad handout produced a second, plain white PNG of 8,267 bytes. |
| Text | Changed | Words turn into pixels, so they cannot be searched, copied or read aloud by a screen reader; repeat key details in the message that carries the image. |
| Colours and photos | Kept | The handout's yellow title and both photographs look the same in the PNG as in the PDF step. |
A two-page report came back as two PNGs in one ZIP, numbered in page order; a single-page Pages 14.5 document came back as one PNG with no archive.
At the default 144 DPI an A4 page is 1191 × 1684 pixels and a Letter page 1224 × 1584. Raise dpi for print or set width for a fixed slot on a web page.
The image shows the page as our office engine laid it out, so a photo that lost its text wrap or a substitute font that moved a line break is baked into the picture.
When the layout adds an empty last page, it becomes an image too: the iPad handout produced a second, plain white PNG of 8,267 bytes.
Words turn into pixels, so they cannot be searched, copied or read aloud by a screen reader; repeat key details in the message that carries the image.
The handout's yellow title and both photographs look the same in the PNG as in the PDF step.
We converted our Apple Pages sample (232 KB) with Office engine → Image engine on 2026-10-20. It took 1.5 s and produced a 253 KB PNG file, about the same size as the input. The engine raised 2 warnings, listed below.
Input · sample.pages · 232 KB
ZIP with 26 parts
Output · sample.png · 253 KB
1190 × 1685 px, 8-bit, colour type 2
LibreOffice and pdftoppm
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf handout.pages && pdftoppm -png -r 144 handout.pdf pageGoing through PDF gives every page; asking soffice for PNG directly writes only the first one.
The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine → Image engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=pages&to=png.
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@input.pages" -F "from=pages" -F "to=png" \
-F 'options={"width":0}' \
--output output.png| Key | Applies to | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| width | Writing PNG | number | 0 |
| height | Writing PNG | number | 0 |
| fit | Writing PNG | contain · cover · fill | contain |
| quality | Writing PNG | number | 90 |
| background | Writing PNG | string | #ffffff |
| stripMetadata | Writing PNG | boolean | true |
In one of our test documents the layout added an empty page after the real content, and that page is rendered like any other. Delete the extra image, or set max_pages to the number of pages you expect.
Set max_pages to 1 and width to the size you need, for example 600. You get one PNG instead of a ZIP.
At 144 DPI it is sharp on screen but soft on paper. Set dpi to 300, or print the PDF version, which keeps text as outlines.