The document "fine_name" couldn't be opened

Has anyone had the pleasure of working on a pages file, printing it, saving it, closing it and when you go back to open it, it says "The document "fine_name" couldn't be opened"
It is a .page file format, I have tried opening it up in text edit and changing the filename to word doc. I have also tried opening it on another machine and nothing works. Apple seem to think it is corrupt. I wouldn't normally mind, but it is a very important pages file and I need to recover it.
Any advise would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Gavstars

Gavstars,
welcome to Apple Discussions.
Renaming the file will not work because Pages files are folders (or packages). Ctrl-Click (right-click) on the file name in Finder and choose "Show Package content" from the contextual menu.
Inside of the package you'll see different folders and files (e.g. images) belonging to your document. Maybe one of these files is missing. If there's a file called index.xml.gz, you could at least try to get the text of your document.
Copy index.xml.gz to your desktop and double click on the file. It will be extracted to index.xml. You could open index.xml in Safari (shows only text but difficult to read) or in Internet Explorer or some decent XML editor. IE and the editor will show xml tags surrounding the text.
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