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How to open Apple’s iWork Pages documents without Pages

Because file-conversion is always exciting, and because I found this obscure little tip buried way down in a forum thread — but it’s golden — I figured it needs to be published more plainly:

When you need to open an Apple Pages document but you don’t have the Pages application itself, try this, regardless of your platform (Mac, Windows, Linux, whatever):

Pages file[s] (all iWork files actually) are [in fact] .zip archives. Change the extension from .pages to .zip and you can unarchive the file. One of files remaining will be a PDF of the formatted file.

— mysterytramp, originally here

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2 Responses to “How to open Apple’s iWork Pages documents without Pages”

  1. JDH Says:
    August 5th, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Brilliant! Could’ve used this tip a few weeks back; very happy to have it in my arsenal now. Thanks, Dr. Boyd!

  2. Robin Baxter Says:
    November 15th, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Thank you, Thank you. It’s tough when customers send in all kinds of files and have no idea why a service bureau would have an issue. Thank you.

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