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I'm trying to use the textutil feature in terminal to convert this .pages file to a .txt file. I've succeeded converting other files like .doc or .docx over to a .txt but this one in particular is giving me headache. I changed the permission rights to 755 but I don't think that mattered to begin with. Any ideas?

Code:

┌─(shaneyost@Shanes-MacBook-Pro-2:s000)───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(~/Desktop/JAVA/Week_3)─┐
└─(19:56:%)── textutil -convert txt Week_3_HWK_INSTR.pages                                                          ──(Tue, 20130730)─┘
Error reading Week_3_HWK_INSTR.pages.  The file isn't in the correct format.

I even tried just getting the information on the file and it doesn't work.

Code:

└─(20:00:%)── textutil -info Week_3_HWK_INSTR.pages                                                                 ──(Tue, 20130730)─┘
Error reading Week_3_HWK_INSTR.pages.  The file isn't in the correct format.

Is it because textutil doesn't work with .pages? If so this is kind of pointless since pages is apart of iWorks and iWorks is an apple product. You would think textutil should be compatible with working with .pages files.

I think Apple assumes that if you have *.pages files, you must have the pages application. And if you have pages, you can use it to export the contents as text if you don't want to read the content of the file nicely formatted as presented by pages itself.