I often use AI to produce slides, handouts and to plan adult classes on human development. AI can produce them formatted as PC type docs, not Mac docs. How can I convert them to docs I can use on my Mac - for handouts, slides to project onto a screen, and emails? I am not interested in a ten step program ... simple one or a few keyboard shortcuts and we're done...that's what I'm hoping to find here.
MacBook Air, macOS 26.0
Apple has never provided an open source specification for its current Pages, Numbers, or Keynote document formats so unless your tools can generate MS Word .docx or Rich Text (RTF) document formats that the mentioned Apple applications can open and translate, then you are either done, or in copy/paste hades.
Copy/pasting from a PDF will result in every line of text pasted into Pages as ending with a newline, rather than the paragraph appearance in a PDF. Either don't generate a PDF, or do so and have a PDF Editor ($$$) that offers to convert to Word, Excel, or Powerpoint documents. Adobe Acrobat can do that for a scathing subscription fee, and some other PDF Editors as well, though that feature is not enabled in any trial software.
Apple has never provided an open source specification for its current Pages, Numbers, or Keynote document formats so unless your tools can generate MS Word .docx or Rich Text (RTF) document formats that the mentioned Apple applications can open and translate, then you are either done, or in copy/paste hades.
Copy/pasting from a PDF will result in every line of text pasted into Pages as ending with a newline, rather than the paragraph appearance in a PDF. Either don't generate a PDF, or do so and have a PDF Editor ($$$) that offers to convert to Word, Excel, or Powerpoint documents. Adobe Acrobat can do that for a scathing subscription fee, and some other PDF Editors as well, though that feature is not enabled in any trial software.
You haven't provided sufficient information here for anyone to help you. Just AI generalities for producing content on a PC. Are you using Microsoft Co-Pilot in Microsoft 365 on Windows? The subscription Microsoft 365 for Mac also has Co-Pilot.
You can open a PDF in Microsoft Word on the Mac and it will convert that PDF to a Word document (not necessarily perfectly formatted or spell checked) that can be opened in Pages and translated into a Pages document.
Suggest that the vendor provide file formats in addition to PDF.
Otherwise, you’re headed for a slog, as PDF is intended as an output format and is not well suited to be an input format. The results of PDF-to-text and other such conversions can be quite bad too, depending on the details of the particular PDF and the tools used to produce it.
https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/resources/document-files/pdf-to-txt.html
Thanks for the reply - here's some more detail: I'm using a MacBook Air M2, OS Tahoe 26. I'm looking to convert docs that are charts or illustrations made in Perplexity and in ChatGPT to docs that Mac can read. So far, I have been unable to convert a doc to an Apple doc except by cutting and pasting which is laborious.
converting .pdf docs into .pages and/or .slides docs?
