Animate, share or save drawings in Pages on Mac
You can draw in a Pages document on iPhone and iPad. If you later open the document in Pages for Mac, you can animate the drawing, share it or save it to Photos as an image or movie file.
Animate a drawing
You can animate a drawing so that it appears in your document as if it’s being drawn.
Click to select the drawing you want to animate.
In the Format
sidebar, click the Drawing tab, then select the Animate Drawing tickbox.Do any of the following:
Adjust how long the animation plays: Drag the Duration slider.
Repeat the animation in a loop: Select the Loop tickbox.
Preview the animation: Click Play.
To play the animation in your document, select the drawing, then click Play Drawing.
When you export the document in EPUB format, the animation is converted to a video. In a reflowable EPUB document, the video has a white background. In a fixed layout EPUB document, the video has the same background as in Pages. See Export to Word, PDF or another file format.
Add a drawing description
You can add a description to any drawing in your document. Drawing descriptions are read by assistive technology (for example, VoiceOver) when someone uses that technology to access your document. Drawing descriptions aren’t visible anywhere in your document.
Click the drawing to select it, then, in the Format
sidebar, click the Drawing tab.Click the Description text box, then enter your text.
If you export your document as a PDF, drawing descriptions are still readable by assistive technology. See Export to Word, PDF or another file format in Pages on Mac.
To add descriptions to an image or video, see Add an image description or Add a video description.
Share or save a drawing
You can share or save any drawing as an image, and you can also save an animated drawing as a video.
In the document, Control-click the drawing, then choose Share.
If the drawing is animated, choose Share as Image or Share as Movie.
Do one of the following:
Share: Choose a method for sending the drawing.
Save: Choose Add to Photos.