I received pictures in a dozen emails and saved each picture into one file in .pages. I did not import the photos before doing this and now iPhoto won't recognize the pictures because they are in a .pages file. How do I get the pics to iPhoto?

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I received pictures in a dozen emails and saved each picture into one file in .pages. I did not import the photos before doing this and now iPhoto won't recognize the pictures because they are in a .pages file. How do I get the pics to iPhoto?

I received a dozen pictures in a few emails and I saved them all into one file in pages. I just copied and pasted. I do not have the originals any longer. Iphoto will not permit me to import the pictures as it does not recognize a .pages file, nor can I simply click and drag from the pages document to iphoto nor from pages to the desktop to iphoto. How can I save each picture I guess back into a jpeg and then import them into iphoto or have i lost them to a pages document forever? This is urgent as I need the pictures made into a book on iphoto for work by Friday!!! Please advise! Thank you.

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Posted on Apr 9, 2012 11:40 PM

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Answer 1

MadisonP

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Apr 10, 2012 12:30 AM in response to jocelyndr

Greetings,

Locate the Pages document wherever it's located on your computer and click once on it to highlight it.
Go to File > Duplicate to make a backup copy of the file.
Click once again on the file to highlight it.
Go to File > Get Info
In the "Name & Extension" category remove the ".pages" extension and put in ".zip".
Close the info window and double-click the now renamed pages file (zip file now).
It will decompress into a folder which contains all the base components including all the images you added. These can be dragged onto the iPhoto icon to import them.

Hope that helps.

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Answer 2

Ashka

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Apr 10, 2012 12:38 AM in response to jocelyndr

Select photo in Pages > Inspector > Metrics > Select original size > Drag the icon for the photo name from the top of the metrics inspector window to your desktop. The photo may well be called "dropped image" in tiff format, so rename it on the desktop. If you want to change it back to .jpeg format use preview although iPhoto is happy with .tiff.

Photo can then be dropped into iPhoto or you can put all the photos onto the desktop first > then into a named folder and drop that onto the iPhoto sidebar.

Best.

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