No Pages preview in Finder

I recently upgraded to Mavericks from Snow Leopard and at the same time also upgraded to version 5 of Pages.
Since then, for any new documents I create, I can no longer see a preview in the Finder - I just get a large Pages icon for each document (please see screenshot below).
Documents created with the old Pages '09 version still have their previews available in the Finder.
I'm finding this infuriating as I'm having to open these files in Pages where I always used to use Quick Look in the Finder.
I know there was a setting in Pages '09 Preferences/General to "Include preview in document by default" when Saving, but this does not appear to be available in Pages 5 preferences.
I've searched these forums for anyone else having a simliar problem and cannot find anything. This is also happening with Keynote presentations.
Apologies if I am overlooking a simple setting somewhere but any help anyone can give would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks.

Hello. I had a similar problem an solved it like this:
Search for following file:
iWork.qlgenerator
(use advanced search in the Finder with Option "Include Systemfiles")
Move this file (iWork.qlgenerator) to following path:
Sytem / Library / QuickLook
If there's no folder named QuickLook, just create one.
That does the trick for me. Good luck.

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