Changing to Pages 5.5

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Changing to Pages 5.5

I have over 200 recipes on my iMac written in Pages. Some are in v 5.5, others are in older versions. My problem is my iPad can't read older versions of Pages so I need to change the recipes on my iMac written in older versions so when I sync them to my iPad I can read them.

Obviously, I could open each and every recipe and update them as needed, but is there some way to identify those written in an older version so that I could just open and update those?

Thanks

Dave

iMac (20-inch Early 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Aug 23, 2015 2:35 PM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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Aug 23, 2015 2:53 PM in response to David Schlachter1

David,

Pages does not store the version number of the creating application within the documents. I got tired of this cloaking, so I wrote a Python and Bash shell script that individually run in the Terminal, take a relative file path on the command-line, and tell you if the document is Pages '08/'09, or Pages v5. I also combined that Bash Script with AppleScript to make this a visual process that prompts for a file, and pops a dialog that informs of the version.

Which do you prefer? You don't need to know Python, Bash, or AppleScript.

Alternatively, you could open those Pages '09 documents with Pages for iCloud, it would convert them to Pages v5 document format, where you could access them directly with your IOS Pages. I would use copies of these documents, rather than the originals, because Pages for iCloud, and Pages v5 will filter out content that these applications do not support from Pages '09 documents.

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Answer 2

Aug 24, 2015 3:55 AM in response to VikingOSX

VikingOSX

Thank you for the reply.

But am I missing something here? If I read your reply correctly, I would still have to deal with each document individually.

Dave

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Answer 3

VikingOSX

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Aug 24, 2015 4:49 AM in response to VikingOSX

Yes, unfortunately, it is an individual document approach — whether you use Pages v5 on OS X, or Pages for iCloud, or even test a document's genesis with my scripts that reveal which Pages version created it. This is Apple's doing, and there has been a great gnashing of teeth since Pages v5 was released.

The upside of using my script(s) is that they are eye-blink fast, do not launch Pages, and definitively inform of the Pages version that created the document.

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