Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening 'Pages' documents

Hi :)
Thanks :)

Of course we take the blame whenever 'they' change their formats and refuse
to pass their formats specification on to anyone else, as appears to be the
case give that MS struggle too.

Wrt paranoia, yes it does appear paranoid.  Even though it fits a pattern
that makes it easy to predict future events with a high level of accuracy.

Regards from
a Tom :)

On 7 Sep 2017 11:29, "Alexander Thurgood" <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 07/09/2017 à 12:12, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > Hi :)
> > 1.  Is there an easy work-around such as using "Pages" to save in a
> > different format?
>
> Pages 6.2 (latest version available on OSX 10.12.6) can export to :
>
> PDF
> Word (DOCX or DOC97-2004)
> Plain text
> RTF
> ePub
> Pages'09
>
> so potentially, there are one or more workarounds.
> > 2.  Does Microsquish Office open such files any better?
>
> No - Word thinks the file is OpenXML and fails to parse it correctly,
> resulting in no file being loaded/displayed.
>
> > 3.  Is it easy to file a bug-report against "Pages" with better
> > likelihood of Apple fixing it?
> No. It isn't Apple's problem after all, they haven't broken their own
> product. The LibreOffice import filter isn't up to the job, that's all.
> One might go out on a limb and suspect that Apple deliberately changed
> its file format to thwart importation into LibreOffice, but that would
> be just paranoid thinking, wouldn't it...
>
>
> Alex

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