Reading protected .pages file on a pc

elljay

Can anyone tell me how to do the above please? I have recently taken over as secretary for a small voluntary group after the previous one died and among various papers is a cd with lots of documents that I really need on it. Most are in word or excel which I can read fine in Open Office but others are in .pages which I see is a Mac only file. Having googled I should be able to read them by renaming them .zip but as they are write-protected they won't let me do that.

Other than look for someone with a Mac, and so far have drawn a blank, is there any way I can just read these documents?

Thank you for any advice.

Elljay

fwor

Copy the files from the CD to a folder on your PC's hard disk. You should then be able to modify them as you like.

doverswot

As fwor said, copy them to your pc so that you can rename the extension to .zip which will enable you open the .pages container file.

How useful this will then be will depend what's in the container, following extract is from Wikipedia, appoligies if you know this already

As of August 2010, Pages does not support OpenDocument file format. At the same time, Pages is restricted to Mac OS X operating system only. While there is no program that can view or edit a .pages file using Windows or Linux, some content can be retrieved because a .pages file is actually a bundle. A user can open a .pages file in an unpackaging program, or by renaming files as .zip files in Windows (XP and onwards), and will find either a .jpg or .pdf preview in its entirety for viewing and printing, though only possible if the creator of the .pages file elected to include a preview. The user will also find a .xml file with unformatted text[10]. This process can also be used for users of the 2008 version of Pages to open documents saved in the 2009 version of Pages, which are not backwards compatible. iWork can also export documents into a number of formats; unfortunately, formatting is often lost during the export process. There is no third-party converter available at this time that can change the file type and save the formatting.