Updating preview thumbnail in Pages document
I have some older Pages documents that have never displayed properly in any document readers for iPhone, including the iDisk app (the text runs off the bottom of the page). Apple help documents indicate that you need to check the "Include preview in document by default" in preferences>general when saving in order to avoid this problem. While this works for recent documents I create, it will not correct the older documents. Even if I make text changes to the older documents and then re-save it, the text changes appear in the document reader on my iphone but the formatting is still broken (text runs off page). I can only get the formatting to show up properly if I create a new blank document in Pages and then copy and past the text from the old document into the new one and save it for viewing on the iPhone.
Does anyone know how I can update/fix the preview in these older documents without having to copy and paste all of them into new ones?
Thanks
John
Which is the structure of your old documents ?
Is it th epackage one which is the only one available in iWork '08 or is it the flatfile one which is the default one in iWork '09.
I f you don't know, control click the icon of one of them.
If you get a contextual menu with the item "Show Package Contents", it's a … package.
In this case, rename the document ffrom trucmuche.pages to trucmuche.template.
Double-click it.
You will get a new replica. Save it.
If your application is set to save in the flatfile format, you will get a flatfile file and I guess that it will behave the wanted way.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 11 février 2012
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