No.
If you only have a Pages document and a Windows PC, it is very difficult to see the Pages document as the author intended it. You have only two options:
1. Get a Mac with Pages, or call the original creator of the document and have the Pages document saved in a format that can be read on Windows. That usually means Word or PDF. If you want to edit the document on Windows, only Word or RTF formats work. RTF files with images and tables are not supported.
2. If the file was saved as a package, you can look at the files inside the Pages document directory and try to make something out of the different pictures and xml files that are there. You may at least get an idea what the document is about. If the author set the checkbox "Include preview in document", when the file was originally saved, this may work out reasonably well.
If you want to see what the Windows user will see in a Pages document you can control-click on the file in the Finder and Show Package contents.
You will see the included images and other files in their directory structure. If you clicked the checkbox "Include preview in document" when you saved the file, you will even get a PDF file with all the text and some very compressed pictures in the QuickLook folder.
Anyhow, there is currently only one application that can open Pages files, and that is Pages.
(The situation is the same for Numbers and Keynote documents. There is no available reader for Windows.)
If you only have a Pages document and a Windows PC, it is very difficult to see the Pages document as the author intended it. You have only two options:
1. Get a Mac with Pages, or call the original creator of the document and have the Pages document saved in a format that can be read on Windows. That usually means Word or PDF. If you want to edit the document on Windows, only Word or RTF formats work. RTF files with images and tables are not supported.
2. If the file was saved as a package, you can look at the files inside the Pages document directory and try to make something out of the different pictures and xml files that are there. You may at least get an idea what the document is about. If the author set the checkbox "Include preview in document", when the file was originally saved, this may work out reasonably well.
If you want to see what the Windows user will see in a Pages document you can control-click on the file in the Finder and Show Package contents.
You will see the included images and other files in their directory structure. If you clicked the checkbox "Include preview in document" when you saved the file, you will even get a PDF file with all the text and some very compressed pictures in the QuickLook folder.
Anyhow, there is currently only one application that can open Pages files, and that is Pages.
(The situation is the same for Numbers and Keynote documents. There is no available reader for Windows.)
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I suddenly had a thought to search for an iWork '08 viewer or editor for WIndows too..
But, it seems like I had no improvemrnt in doing so..
HWaaa... :_(
This is so uncool of Apple to not at least have a viewer os it's iWorks format for Windows..
Or at least have an iWork for Windows. Seeing that Microsoft has done a very good job of making a native Misrosoft Office for Mac OS X, I see no harm in Apple making an iWork native application for Windows too..
Thanks for posting this information. I needed to pull some images out of a .pages document - but I had forgotten that it was an XML "package".
I am used to Apple Works and MS Works totally locking you out from your own data!
Thanks again.
Good news!
The iWorks demo (at least the latest one) is fully-funcitonal for 30-days, after which it says it will still open docs, but you can't save or export. So basically sounds like it'll be a viewer.
HTH
If you have an iPhone close you can email the pages document and read it on your iPhone.
I [heart] Dørgi. Thank you for posting the obvious that was eluding me. I was able to (finally) see my wedding outline notes from my officiant today and retype them into an email. You win the big award from me! :)
Opening a ".pages" file under windows is simple if you remember that ".pages" files are like a compressed collection of files. Associate winzip or winrar with ".pages" files on your windows platform, then double click on the .pages file and open the preview.pdf file within, you can then read the contents and save a local copy if needed.
Roy- you are awesome- thx for the help!
Roy,
Basically, you saved my life! hahahahah God bless you, my friend
Roy saved our lives
god bless you
Thanks from Turkey
Cheers Roy,
I was at the end of my tether.
Thanks Roy!
ROY IS THE MAN!!!
Wow! Roy, you're a genius! Thank you so much... i am on beating my deadline and couldn't find a way to convert .pages to .doc or whatever format compatible to my windows until i got into this website.. thanks to this blogger as well, roy wouldn't be here if he/she did not post this... ^_^
Roy -
You are brilliant.
Thanks Roy!!
Good work, life saver, made me look good to the misses ;-0
Roy,.. Smart idea!..
The boss was pleased...
Thanks Steve...
Thank you very much, Roy. You are a GENIUS!
Roy you are the man!!!!!
Many Thanks
Roy Rules!
My daughter's project was due and we couldn't open the file.
You saved the day!
Thank you Roy - you rock! Worked perfectly for me!
There is kind of...
Check out:
http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0411/xml/redir.asp?EXT=pages
one easy way: upload it to google docs, get it as a pdf from there.
Thanks Roy!
Thanks Roy, that worked perfect!
Excellent - Roy, thank you very much!!
Thank you to the Original Poster, and especially to Roy. The .pages archive opens quite nicely in most archive extractors (I used 7zip). To make this easier to find in search engines, let's all add "open .pages files in Windows" to our posts. :)
Open Freely will open Pages format. There is, of course, a bunch of crapware that you have to watch out for.
@roy echo the previous poster
"preview.pdf" really really helps on windoze...
Since windows has its own zip/unzip now, and I don't have WinZip installed, using my Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) to upload the file and view it online (or convert to PDF and download again) was PERFECT!
Thanks to "anonymous" for the tip! Don't need any extra software!
http://features.en.softonic.com/how-to-open-pages-files-in-windows says something similar to what Roy said. Save the file as a .zip & open with winzip, then open the pdf preview file within. Love it.
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