when i first went to open my pages on windows I just could not!!!! then i searched a bit and found that i have to rename the document to .zip
but there is a problem, nothing happens when i rename it to .zip
just need to mention that my pages document on windows is a folder with many little documents inside.......
Can you help me with that???
Thanks
MacBook Air, Windows 10
Maria,
There is nothing inside your Pages document that is meaningful to any application on Windows — or human readable, because Apple uses proprietary data formats that only Pages applications on OS X, IOS, and Pages for iCloud can open and read. The OSXDaily article implies that Microsoft applications can read those internal structured Pages files, or the PDF, and that is simply nonsense. A complete waste of time renaming Pages documents.
Ideally, that Pages document content is exported to Word (.doc/.docx) format on the Mac, and that Word document is provided to you.
Access to the free iCloud dot com from a supported Windows browser (Firefox 41 works ok) — gets you access to Pages for iCloud. This web application allows you to upload that .pages document on your Windows machine to iCloud. Once this document is opened there, you can click a wrench icon on the Pages for iCloud toolbar, and choose to Download a Copy. A panel is presented that allows you to choose a Word document format and a .docx is downloaded to you on Windows. Now, you can access the converted Pages content with any Windows application that understands the .docx format.
Maria,
There is nothing inside your Pages document that is meaningful to any application on Windows — or human readable, because Apple uses proprietary data formats that only Pages applications on OS X, IOS, and Pages for iCloud can open and read. The OSXDaily article implies that Microsoft applications can read those internal structured Pages files, or the PDF, and that is simply nonsense. A complete waste of time renaming Pages documents.
Ideally, that Pages document content is exported to Word (.doc/.docx) format on the Mac, and that Word document is provided to you.
Access to the free iCloud dot com from a supported Windows browser (Firefox 41 works ok) — gets you access to Pages for iCloud. This web application allows you to upload that .pages document on your Windows machine to iCloud. Once this document is opened there, you can click a wrench icon on the Pages for iCloud toolbar, and choose to Download a Copy. A panel is presented that allows you to choose a Word document format and a .docx is downloaded to you on Windows. Now, you can access the converted Pages content with any Windows application that understands the .docx format.
You approach only works for Pages 09 single-file (default) format documents that include the PDF within the internal QuickLook folder. Pages v5 documents do not include a PDF file, or any other content that is accessible by other applications than the Pages revision number (or newer) that created it.
Try the suggestions here > How to Open a .Pages Format File in Windows & Microsoft Word
Sorry, this is not quite true. If you save the .pages file to disk and rename it with a .zip extension in Windows, you can open the package by simply double-clicking, find the PDF inside, and open that without issue. Just save the PDF itself et voila!
I can't open my pages file on windows......
