Pages 5.2.2 won't export to PDF

Hi, all—
I've created a Pages 5.2.2 doc. It's saved in iCloud. I try to "Export to PDF" and get an error message:
"The document [name of doc] could not be exported as [name of doc--whether I leave it the same or change it]."
This happens when I try to save to my desktop. It happened when I tried, as a go-around, to save as Pages 09, too.
Anyone know why this is so? And how to fix?
Many thanks,
Liz

Liz,
Slightly off topic
Seeing how your iMac is from 2007 your problem with permissions happened when Apple changed some of the underlying Unix (BSD) software. The permission structure got changed to allow what is known as Access Control Lists (ACL) and for computers that had older OSs(Tiger…) originally, this caused lots of problems.
Many folks including myself that used Migration Assistant to upgrade then got messed up computers. A tell tale sign of this is having to always use your password to move almost any file. Very annoying. Unfortunately, not easy to clean up as you need to change system files and use terminal. There is a GUI program out there to fix this, but totally forgetting the name right now.
Backing up your computer to an external drive, erasing the internal drive, doing a clean install, change your user name(s)(if more than one user) and password(s), re-install software and then manually re-installing documents will clear up your problems.
Don't use Migration Assistant or you will reproduce the problems. MA is an all or nothing program and brings all the crud along.
The great thing about this approach is that your computer will be like new, fast and frees up hdd space.
A slightly different approach would be to replace the internal hdd maybe even install a ssd and put the old drive in an external enclosure or dock. When you need a document you'd have access.
Major hassle and time.
Hope this helps, Greg

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