Apple iWork Pages as input format

Apple iWork Pages as input format

[Cheyo Jimenez]

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Hi, 

What is the possibility of adding support for converting Apple Pages to 
markdown?

A .pages file is just a zip file with metadata. The actual content lives 
in iwa files I believe. 

https://github.com/obriensp/iWorkFileFormat/blob/master/Docs/index.md

Pages comes free with macOS and I believe most people use it. 

Even though it exports to .docx, the actual save file is .pages even after 
opening a doc file, it converts it back to a .pages file for edit. 

It would be great If there was a way I could run pandoc on my whole drive 
and make more portable copies of these documents I have. 

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Re: Apple iWork Pages as input format

[Daniel Staal]

On 11/3/17 2:21 PM, Cheyo Jimenez wrote:
> 
> What is the possibility of adding support for converting Apple Pages to 
> markdown?
> 
> A .pages file is just a zip file with metadata. The actual content lives 
> in iwa files I believe.
> 
> https://github.com/obriensp/iWorkFileFormat/blob/master/Docs/index.md
> 
> Pages comes free with macOS and I believe most people use it.
> 
> Even though it exports to .docx, the actual save file is .pages even 
> after opening a doc file, it converts it back to a .pages file for edit.
> 
> It would be great If there was a way I could run pandoc on my whole 
> drive and make more portable copies of these documents I have.

Just as a warning: This is likely to be hard.  The link you have there 
is really the only documentation on that file format - and it's 
unofficial, and ~5 years old.  The initial versions of Pages the rest of 
the iWork suite worked in XML, but that was over a decade ago and 
they've been using proprietary binary for a while.  And you'll note that 
Pandoc doesn't support any binary file types, just text-based types.

Daniel T. Staal

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