On 11/21/13, 7:33 AM, "Charles Dyer" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

On 20 Nov 2013, at 17:52 , Andy Lee <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

A writer friend asks:
If you've been using ClarisWorks/AppleWorks/Pages all the way back, and you 
like it, and you also have hundreds of documents that you don't want to 
convert, and you hate Microsoft Word, but the new Pages is like a bug-ridden 
video game, you might think of changing to ___________ ?
Given all the grumbling I've seen about the new Pages (haven't used it myself), 
I suspect others have sought to answer the same question.  Any suggestions?

Pages 5 is one of the more useless  apps that I’ve ever seen released by 
anyone, much less Apple.

DataViz used to have an app which would batch-convert various files. It was 
quite useful back in the day, but I think it’s dead now. Is there a currently 
available app which could batch convert from Pages format (Pages 09 or Pages 5 
or both) to a more commonly used format (.doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt, etc) so that 
they’re usable in something other than Pages 5? Assuming, that is, that there 
is something else out there that isn’t Word or LibreOffice.

MacLinkPlus Deluxe.  I was a happy owner of that for years.  Haven't heard of 
it in forever, and it doesn't appear to have been updated in at least that 
long.  Last version died with the passing of Rosetta.  Only the Wayback Machine 
seems to remember it well:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090209052950/http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/

--
Bruce Carter, Center for Creative Computing,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN  46556
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