As of 2010, other word processing programs can’t open a Pages file. However, Pages also embeds a PDF file in each document. PCs and Mac computers don’t need iWork to open the PDF file and access the text of a Pages document.
via How to Open .Pages Files Without iWork | eHow.com.
The site linked above has a few steps to access a pdf version of a pages doc if you don’t have Pages. Basically change the extension to zip, unzip it and there’s a pdf in the QuickLook dir. So great!
Worked perfectly! Thanks!
By: Renae on April 3, 2012
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Easy, worked perfectly, and I didn’t have to install any new software! Thanks.
By: Donna on June 5, 2012
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7zip are able to open the .pages and will show the contents of it
By: Bryan Arnold on July 16, 2012
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great tip, works a treat, thanks.
By: Paul on August 6, 2012
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Tried this on a Mac running 10.6.8 and what I got from unzipping was a .cpgz file. I tried unzipping in the Terminal window with no luck.
I see this thread is over a year old, but similar suggestions have been made re: appending the .zip extension more recently.
By: Randy on February 16, 2013
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