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

2017-09-08 Thread Tom Davies
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

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

2017-09-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
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

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

2017-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) 1. Is there an easy work-around such as using "Pages" to save in a different format? 2. Does Microsquish Office open such files any better? 3. Is it easy to file a bug-report against "Pages" with better likelihood of Apple fixing it? It seems that other companies try to force users

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

2017-09-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/2017 à 18:51, anne-ology a écrit : FWIW, only older versions of Pages (version '09) documents can be opened with reasonable fidelity using LibreOffice. Current versions of Pages (5.6.x) documents do not open correctly. There is at least one bug report (bug 105211) about this in the

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

2017-09-06 Thread anne-ology
yes & no. Suggestions: (1) If you go to the Apple 'store', you should find that Pages is one of the free programs you can download. (2) LO has a Mac version which I would think would open any Mac document, hopefully someone with more knowledge