Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Productivity, Apple, Microsoft
iWork files are really just zip files, and contain PDF previews
by Jason Clarke Nov 1st 2009
Have you ever received an iWork file created in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote on a Mac, and not had any way to deal with it? Next time, try changing the file's extension to .zip, then unzip it with your favorite zip utility. Inside you should find a PDF preview document containing a nicely formatted version of the document in question.
It seems strange that Apple doesn't promote this fact more, as it's a real usability win for iWork users that want to share their documents with non-Mac users. Wouldn't it be nice if Word, Excel, and Powerpoint did this?
[photo by *keng]
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