Problems with Pages

by James R. Stoup
May 06, 2007

This is both a rant and a question, here is the rant part. When I tried to email someone a Pages document they were unable to open it on their machine. I tried to compress it using OS X’s default archiving tool (it uses gzip) but that also didn’t work. Upon unzipping the file I still couldn’t open it.

Here is the question part, can anyone help me? Does anyone know why this is happening and/or what to do about it? All help would be cool.

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1. James, this would be a great question for AAM - why not post it on the forums?

   http://www.applematters.com/index.php/forums/viewforum/24/

   By Aaron Wright on 2007 05 07

2. Here are two ideas:

   [1] Make sure your Pages document is saved and closed before e-mailing or compressing it;

   [2] Some ISPs (like my work e-mail address) strip out .ZIP files as potential malware (it’s stupid, I know). Try renaming the file with another extension like".PIZ"—then inform your recipient to rename it back to “.ZIP.”

   I hope your problem is something simple like this!

   Best wishes,
   Clint

   By on 2007 05 07

3. And, of course, if the person you emailed to does not have Pages........?

   By on 2007 05 12

4. Do they need to edit the file?  If not, why not try file->print and save it as a PDF?

   By hownottowrite on 2007 05 15

5. I just ran into a problem because I had some movies in my Pages file, which were not embedded in the file. I knew this when I made the file… but forgot when I needed space and moved the movies onto my external drive.

   Then when I went to open my pages file it opened part way and stuck there for about 10 minutes. Then it timed out and gave errors. I loaded the file and deleted the offending pages (which luckily weren’t pages I actually needed access to).

   The only fault of pages in this case was not quickly saying “your video files have moved!” (I assume it spent 10 minutes trying to find something on my disk?).

   Not sure if that’s any help or related to your problem of course!

   By on 2008 04 20

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