what's best way to add pages of text to lightroom classic slideshow?

[bob5EAF]

I'm using, or trying to use, Lightroom Classic slideshow function to make a digital scrapbook.  I want to include pages of text that I create in Apple's pages app.  Is there a way to import from pages directly to Lightroom?  Or what's the best way to do it, other than the metadata or captions routes which seem ill-suited for lots of text?  Thanks.

[John T Smith]

You need to ask program questions in the forum for the program you are using
To ask in the forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/
Moving from Using the Community (which is about the forums) to the correct forum

[bob5EAF]

I'm confused.  This is the Lightroom forum.  When I click on the link you provided, I chose Lightroom.  What exactly are you suggesting I do differently?  Note that I received four substantive responses from this inquiry as is, which suggests I posted the right place.  Please advise.

[Ian Lyons]

You posted to the wrong forum originally, but was later moved to the correct forum.

[Conrad_C]

The file formats Lightroom Classic imports are mostly those which can come directly out of a camera, so it doesn’t directly import page layout formats like Pages or PDF.

To import content from Pages into Lightroom Classic, each page will need to end up as an individual file in an image format such as JPEG. However, Pages doesn’t export directly to JPEG. One way to do this is to export from Pages as PDF, then use an application that can export each page of the PDF as an image file (JPEG, PNG, TIFF…). Adobe Acrobat Pro is one application that can do this, but there are others. (I couldn’t get Apple Preview to export more than one page at a time.) Or, it looks like Adobe has a free Convert PDF to JPG online tool.

After you have an image file for each page, you can then import those into Lightroom Classic.

[bob5EAF]

Thanks. Exactly what I was asking. I wish the answer were different
though. But that's not your fault.
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[bob5EAF]

I want to create a digital scrapbook with photos, video clips and pages of text that I've created in the pages app or scanned.  From what I can tell, Lightroom doesn't support word or pages-format documents.   Is that right?  Any work-around?  Thanks.

[bob5EAF]

The other way, which seems simpler to me, is to scan the pages document and convert to JPEG in the process.  Or to make a whited-out new JPEG in Lightroom and use the metadata field to put text on it.  I'll try both and see which is fastest.  Thoughts?

[Conrad_C]

The other way, which seems simpler to me, is to scan the pages document and convert to JPEG in the process.

By @bob5EAF

It won’t be simpler to scan, because it will take a lot longer to print all pages then scan all pages, and ensure that the scans are done properly, and there might be some roughness to the type depending on print quality, paper/ink type, and scan quality. For example, plain paper inkjet prints could look a little rough.

Exporting Pages to PDF and then converting each page to an image format should only take a minute or two total because it’s just two steps to process all pages, if you have everything ready, plus the type quality will be perfect because there is no paper print/scan step. You’ll be done with all pages in less time than it would take to print and scan just one page, and with better quality.

Or to make a whited-out new JPEG in Lightroom and use the metadata field to put text on it.

By @bob5EAF

That could work, if you don’t mind the limitations of displaying the Text Overlays.

One reason to use the Pages-to-PDF-to-image format method is if you designed a layout for your text in Pages, such as multiple columns or multiple text styles, because those aren’t possible with slide show Text Overlays.