.PAGES File

The pages file extension is mainly used for the proprietary document format of Apple Pages.

Apple Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple and was a part of the iWork productivity suite. Currently it is available as a free standalone application on App store for all Mac users. Also is available as on-line service and app for iOS operating system (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch).

Apple Pages is also available for iPhone/iPad and on-line on Apple iCloud service. On Windows platform, there is no software compatible with this document file format.

The PAGES file format is XML based and may contain basic text documents or elaborated multi-page brochures, including images, special texts, tables, graphs, charts and more.

These *.pages files can be created from a blank page or based on saved template. Apple Pages include over 140 pre-designed templates.

Technically, a pages file is actually a ZIP archive that contains several files, namely:

• buildVersionHistory.plist - a small text file that contains version history data
• index.xml - contains the main document data in XML format
• Preview.pdf - located in QuickLook folder, used for preview purposes
• Thumbnail.jpg - also located in QuickLook folder, its a low res image for preview purposes

A pages file extension is used for default document format of Pages, a word processor and page layout program from Apple. No other program can open the *.pages files, but Pages is able to export its documents to some other formats, such as PDF or Microsoft Word's *.docx.

How to open:

Only Apple Pages can open *.pages files and there is currently no other word processor for Windows or other platfroms that could open PAGES documents.

How to convert:

If you want to send *.pages files to your friend, who doesn't have Apple Pages installed, you have to save them in some other format (PDF, DOC, DOCX), so he can view them in some alternative office suite. Apple iWork Pages supports export (conversion) of .pages documents to other formats such as DOCX, TXT or PDF. You can access this function via File → Export and export the .pages file to another document format.