{"id":529,"date":"2010-09-26T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpsharp.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2010-09-26T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T18:11:36","slug":"open-apple-pages-pages-files-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Open Apple Pages .pages files in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick fix for Grammie.\u00a0\u00a0 Someone had sent her some .pages files and she couldn&#8217;t open them on Windows 7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out that they are a Winzip compatible file archive with a PDF preview in them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since she doesn&#8217;t even have Winzip installed, I simply exported, edit, and imported the .zip registry entry so the Windows File Explorer would do the trick.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It ended up looking like this:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\.pages]\n\"PerceivedType\"=\"compressed\"\n\"Content Type\"=\"application\/x-zip-compressed\"\n@=\"CompressedFolder\"<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\.pages\\CompressedFolder]<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\.pages\\CompressedFolder\\ShellNew]\n\"Data\"=hex:50,4b,05,06,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00\n\"ItemName\"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\\\n\u00a0 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\\\n\u00a0 00,7a,00,69,00,70,00,66,00,6c,00,64,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,\\\n\u00a0 2d,00,31,00,30,00,31,00,39,00,34,00,00,00<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\.pages\\OpenWithProgids]\n\"CompressedFolder\"=\"\"<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\.pages\\PersistentHandler]\n@=\"{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}\"<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if all those GUID and Shell data values are universal, but if importing the above doesn&#8217;t work, I&#8217;m sure you can figure out the same export\/edit trick I did.\u00a0\u00a0Note you need to logout and login again to restart the base explorer shell.\u00a0\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick fix for Grammie.\u00a0\u00a0 Someone had sent her some .pages files and she couldn&#8217;t open them on Windows 7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out that they are a Winzip compatible file archive with a PDF preview in them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since she doesn&#8217;t even have Winzip installed, I simply exported, edit, and imported the .zip registry entry so the Windows&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/?p=529\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Apple Pages .pages files in Windows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,21,26,93],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-pages","tag-apple-pages","tag-attachement","tag-mac-format-viewer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}