Apple "Pages" to PDF

A friend of mine uses Apple Pages to create a newsletter for our ministry. When he used Pages to make a PDF it was over 20 megs in size. I converted that PDF to Word, then back to a PDF and it was less than 1 meg. Is there a way for him to use CSLive to make a PDF from his Pages file?

Good day,
Your friend could save his files out of Pages as RTF files. You could then use our CreatePDF service to convert those files to PDF. Alternatively, he could purchase Adobe Acrobat and your friend would have the ability to create an Adobe PDF from the Pages print dialog box.
Kind regards,
David
Acrobat Community Manager
Adobe Systems

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> Is it possible to create a tagged PDF with Apple Pages?
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You do not seem to get this button, though. Or why else would you not have checked it already and the problem would have gone away already.
The next point in troubleshooting this is that you are not following the path that would let OS X detect that an external font resource is not embedded.
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Henrik
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Path:            /Applications/Adobe Fireworks CS6/Adobe Fireworks CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Fireworks CS6
Identifier:      com.macromedia.fireworks
Version:         Adobe Fireworks CS6 version 12.0.0.236 (12.0.0)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [163]
User ID:         502
Date/Time:       2013-02-05 17:33:03.564 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          95268 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           72
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 84851 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   17
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