Dealing with Pages' file-conversion and email-attachment problems
Reader Chris Watkins, like some other people, has a couple of bones to pick with Pages. He writes:
I downloaded the new version of Pages and I discovered that when I opened an old Pages document and made a change, I could no longer open it with the old version, which I find more capable. Also, I can’t seem to send these file through Gmail. Can you offer any help?
Some. As has been widely reported, today’s Pages differs from the Pages of old in significant ways—most troubling to many people is that features found in the previous version are missing in this year’s Pages (the other iWork applications have received the same criticism). And, as you’ve discovered, when you open an old Pages file in the new version and make even a single change to the document, the file format likewise changes and you can’t open that document in Pages ’09. What to do?
I’ve updated this answer since the original was posted. In that first answer I swore that you could go into a Pages document’s Info window, choose a different version of Pages in the Open With area, click Change All and any future Pages documents you double-clicked on would open in the old version. After a nudge or two from readers to try it again I did and, lo, it didn’t work. The setting wouldn’t stick.
This leaves you with one of a couple of not-entirely-desirable options. The first is that you can trash the new copy of Pages so that it can’t taint your old Pages documents in the future. Alternatively, if you want to use the new Pages to create new documents but continue to use the old version of Pages for the documents you’ve already created, keep a copy of that old Pages application in the dock or some other handy place and drag your old files to it, rather than double-click on them.
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