Pdf into Pages?

I've been tring to use the pdf2rtf service from Devon technologies to drop text into Pages (which I only bought today). However, it doesn't seem to work! If I use textedit there are absolutely no problems. Pages, however, refuses to open the pdf (greyed out in the open dialogue).
Devon say
NOW ABOUT USING PDF2RTFService:
This is a very convenient way of capturing the text content of PDF files from within any Cocoa application, such as Pages or TextEdit. If that's what you want to do, it really works.
Follow the instructions to install it.
Then logout/login (or restart) to initialize the new Service. Works under Tiger.
I also tried TextLightning. The developer claims that
it appears that Pages directly accepts
PDFs, so I don't see a way for TextLightning to intervene.
As far as I can see I can only get Pages to accept pdf files as graphics, rather than text - even though TextEdit does it fine. It seems like iWork was a poor purchase, rather than a way round Word's services shortcomings.
BTW most of the services in Pages are greyed out unless I have some text in it - is that usual?
Thanks from a (Pages) newbie

Morning, Mark.
I think the problem is the assumption that since Pages can import RTF files it uses RTF within it's file structure, which is wrong.
Both of the sites (I checked them last night) mentioned that their product will work with any Mac OSX program which reads RTF. Since Pages does not (importing converts RTF but does not read RTF) this may be why it will not work with the program.
For now, though, you may be able to get the most by opening the PDF document in Text Edit, saving it as RTF and then importing it into Pages. Not the most elegant, but workable. It's too bad there is no way to build an Automator flow for this procedure.

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