Pages doc losing images

we have created two 90+ pages doc on our g5 twin - panther - and when we open them on the g4 powerbooks - tiger - many of the images are gone or corrupted.
How can we prevent this from happening?
Thank you.
g4 powerbooks and g5 twin Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hello towhom,
welcome to the Pages Discussions. Normally this shouldn't hapen at all. I am working in a Linux-Mac Network and store all my business letters, invoices, etc. I made with Pages (version 2) on the Linux machine and until today there was no problem.
Is the document alright when you open it on the machine on which you have created it? Have you copied the file a second/third time to the PowerBook to see if this is an ongoing problem? How big are the file sizes of the documents? Please describe how the corruptions are looking like? Are there any other problems with the documents (text, shapes, tables)?
To check if the images are broken or if it is a Pages display problem, open the documents package folder (hold control key and click onto the document icon, than choose the menu item "Show Package Contents") and try to open the "corrupted" images out of the appearing Finder window with Preview or Photoshop and see what happens.

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