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On May 24, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
David and All,
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> Thanks for the video link.
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> I found the same instructions last night for opening Pages files by changing the extension to zip and extracting. What's interesting is that my experience is different from what is shown in the video.
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> Let's say my file is called "Charley Brown HW11.pages." When I extract the file, a folder is created. It contains two subfolders: MACOSX and Charley Brown HW11. When I open the HW11 file, I find three items: a folder called Contents, a folder called Quick Look, and a file called Index.XML.GZ. Quick Look only contains a file called thumbnail.jpg. I opened it in Photo Viewer and used the Freedom Import Printer to find out what was on it, but it was all junk with the occasional word or word fragment. Here are the first couple of lines:
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> I haven't figured out how to open the xml.gz file, and the contents folder only contains a small file called PkgInfo, which I also can't open, but both of these are beside the point.
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> I'm wondering if the CharleyBrownHW11.Pages file is corrupt? Has anyone else tried opening Pages files using the rename-to-zip-and-extract method? I'm wondering why my results were so different from the video's.
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> Ciao
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>> On 5/22/2014 3:55 AM, David Goldfield wrote:
>> Ana,
>> what I'm about to tell you will sound totally odd and I actually wondered whether the instructions I found were correct but I verified this with three different sites.
>> the Pages files are actually compressed files. Rename the file so that it has a .zip extension.
>> Open the .zip file and there should be a quicklook folder.
>> Open quicklook and there should be a pdf file called Preview. This preview file is the actual document.
>> It sounds like an odd way to save a file but it should work, although I haven't tried it personally. Here is a page with detailed instructions.
>> http://www.junesjournal.com/need-to-open-a-pages-file-on-a-windows-pc/
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>>> On 5/22/2014 1:26 AM, Ana G wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to open Mac Pages files in Windows?
>>>
>>> I collect all student homework by email, and though my syllabus tells students to submit their work in doc, docx, or rtf file format, I always have a few Mac and iOS users who forget, even after I send them information on exporting pages files. Most of the time, I'm happy to stick to my guns, but sometimes I think it would be much easier if I could just open the files myself.
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>>> I've searched the web, and what I've found is that there is no way to open pages files in Windows or any plugin or website that does this.
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>>> A couple of forums have suggested changing the file extension from pages to zip, then extracting the file. I just did this and had no success.
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>>> does anyone have other suggestions or wisdom on getting the zip method to work? I have an iPhone somewhere collecting dust. I'm thinking I could use that to convert the file, but am wondering if I really want to spend money on Pages, etc.
>>>
>>> any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Ciao
>>>
>>>
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