Pages document automactically sends as zip file when attached to email

Jeffrey,

This is not correct. I have verified that the xxxx.pages file will send if WF is deselected. It just may not be advisable to send that way. Also, there may be SMTP that reject, but that is a different issue.

Ernie

Greetings,

You would first need to save it to your documents folder, and then compress it with whatever compression program you need to use. ZIP is the default format, so if you want, say, .RAR or something else, you would need to get that program.

Otherwise you could use the command line and .tar it. The are all kinds of ways, but directly from pages to email it will be.zip, as far as I can tell.

Cheers,
M.
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The xxxx.pages file is in reality a package, and is of a type not generally known across emails. Thus when you have selected to send all attachments Windows Friendly, Mail zips it. If you deselect to send WF, then you should be able to send it unzipped.

I assume the recipient also has iWorks and Pages, btw?

Ernie

A Pages "document" is a package, which is really a folder hierarchy. It is not possible to send folders by email. It must be archived somehow. Mail does it for you automatically, using the zip format.

Ernie,

I cannot reproduce what you say -- although it looks like it sends a Pages document. Mail zips the document (which in turn, is MIME encoded). On receipt, it displays a Pages icon. But what was actually sent was a zip file, as you can see (or at least I can see, on my machine) by looking at the raw source. Mail automatically zips +and unzips+ the attachment. Of course, if the recipient is not using Mail he may see the zipped file.

I don't find the "windows friendly" setting makes any difference for this behavior.

Jeffrey,

I will try to test some more, sending to a nearby PC, but you may be correct as I pass the cursor over the file. However, I have often had to do this with Scripts to prevent their being zipped.

addendum: Checking the attachment via web mail on the mail server, it is zipped in each case.

Ernie

If you want to send the Pages document to a person who has a Windows computer I have a solution. Click on File and then on export. A menu should appear that says PDF, Word, RTF, and Plain Text. Click on Word and then Click on Next. Then save it to the folder that you want to save it to. Doing this creates a DUPLICATE, it does NOT change the original document. Then go on hotmail and like normally add the document as an attachment.