Importing other formats into iWorks09

Hello,
Next to McOS Systems 7,8,9, till 10.2.8, I used an Application for publishing called Ragtime Version 2,3 and since 2003 Version 5.0.6 (Solo) This very advanced application (www.ragtime.de) translates all documents from Windows .doc and .xls as well as other formats. Ragtime is very friendly to the Mac Operating System.
Recently I upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11 and unfortunately I can't use Ragtime anymore. Buying the last Version 6.0.2 is quit expensive, some $300. Consider that all my documents over the years are in .rtd (Ragtime) format. So I'm in trouble now because I didn't find any IMPORT facility in iWork09
I'm on a 30days trial in iWork09 and before I decide to buy it I need to be sure that all my documents can be translated into iWork09.
Is there an expert out there who can give me a solution.?
Hubert.

Hi Marbert
Ragtime is not a widely used DTP app. so don't expect to be able to directly import them into Pages, nor anything else than RagTime itself.
So you should be looking at some intermediary export format that will get the material out of Ragtime and into Pages. Check your RagTime manual and website to see what is possible. I would think if you don't need editability, maybe .pdf for archival purposes.
The immediate problem I can see is that there is no equivalent for some of the RagTime features like the internal database so you may have to export data and text separately.
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5. Sony standard def hard disk camcorder files.
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I had about 1,000 MPEG2 files on my hard disk, that I’ve moved from my camcorder over the years. To my annoyance, when I switched from a PC to the Mac, I needed to buy the MPEG add-on to Quicktime. OK, so no big deal, but even then, all I could get was the video with no sound. After weeks of digging about, I found out that the reason there was no sound is because apparently Quicktime can’t handle MPEG files with AC3 dolby digital sound. As all of my files are recorded in this format, this was a major hurdle.
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Being unhappy with this, I had a brain wave and decided to try something else. AppleMan1958 helpfully suggested putting the files into different folders “behind IMovie’s back”, something I was open to doing, but wanted to try something else first...
I resurrected my old camcorder from my attic, and filmed a few minutes of footage.
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I then noticed an ‘archive’ button within the import window, so decided to press it. It then copied the MPEG file from the camcorder onto the hard disk. But it did so in the structure of the original camcorder (i.e. it creates a series of specially named folders, just like on the camcorder).
I then decided to copy all 1,000 of my MPEG2 files into the new special structure that had just been created.
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(By the way – I’m sure people already know this information – and I’m in no way taking credit for any of it, as it’s probably been suggested by other people in the past).
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Ofcourse now I’ve spent all this extra money, it’s time to dust off the old camcorder and use that for a few more years, until I pluck up the courage to go hi-def...
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