I did some initial research on this. It seems that .pages ect formats work in the same way as ODF formats in the fact they are some form of compressed archive. I was able to explore them through a archive such as 7zip.
On Thu, 23 May 2013, at 01:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Thanks Alex! I guess we would rather have devs working on more widely > used stuff. It's always possible to put these ideas forwards possibly > for Extensions and just see if that sparks a new dev into working on > LibreOffice. I was wondering if there was already an Extension for > OpenOffice or something lurking around some long forgotten corner of the > internet but i guess the original poster would have already tried > googling for that sort of thing. > > I found the link that i keep losing > http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/about/ > but if Apple are no longer supporting their own formats then i doubt > anyone else will be keen to! > Regard from > Tom :) > > > > > > >________________________________ > > From: Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] > >Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:44 > >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: no answers to my question > > > > > >Le 22/05/13 20:45, Tom Davies a écrit : > > > >Hi Tom, > > > >> Hi :) > >> It might be worth putting forwards as a major project for next year's > >> "Google Summer of Code". The topics for this year have been selected > >> already. > > > >Seriously, I doubt that anyone is going to volunteer to provide Claris > >or Appleworks support. These are old binary formats. > > > > > >Now, Pages/Numbers/Keynote support might interest more people, but for > >that you would need a Mac developer with some serious time on his/her > >hands and at the moment there aren't many floating around in this project. > > > >To my knowledge, not even other apps on OSX can open the > >Pages/Numbers/Keynote files. One would have thought that if the problem > >of interoperability with these formats was that acute, then some bright > >Mac spark would have developed an app that could do just that, convert > >them to something more useful. > > > > > >Alex > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > >Problems? > >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >deleted > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Anthony Easthope [email protected] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
