Why is Pages exporting .pdf for .jpg when I copy/paste into another application?

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Someone sent me a document that has pictures in it. I want to copy the whole thing and just paste it into an e-mail to post to a blog that way, but when I do it converts all of the .jpg files to .pdf files. I've tried pasting into Mail, which is native to Apple, and this happens. I've tried pasting it to gmail, a web app, and this happens, so I'm sure this is happening on the part of pages and not the applications I'm importing into. How do I change that?
Please help! Thx
*P.S. And just out of frustration for Pages lately (due to no new updates in 3 years), why are there so few options to change in preferences and no support for external plug-ins (like Mendeley and other reference managers that work just fine with OpenOffice)?

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d moon wrote:
Someone sent me a document that has pictures in it. I want to copy the whole thing and just paste it into an e-mail to post to a blog that way, but when I do it converts all of the .jpg files to .pdf files. I've tried pasting into Mail, which is native to Apple, and this happens. I've tried pasting it to gmail, a web app, and this happens, so I'm sure this is happening on the part of pages and not the applications I'm importing into. How do I change that?
PDF is the unique format available allowing Pages to transfert a mix of different objects to an other application. The fact that the app is an Apple or a third party one doesn't matter.
I'm just surprised by the fact that copying a single jpej object give the same result under Lion. I was not remembering that it behaved this way with older operating systems.
If you really want to pass the jpegs, you must enter in the internals of the Pages document.
Duplicate the azerty.pages document
rename the replicate as azerty.zip
Double click it.
You will get a folder named azerty.
It will contain several files including the wanted jpegs.
*P.S. And just out of frustration for Pages lately (due to no new updates in 3 years)
In three years, Pages evolved from
4.0 to 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.1
As far as I know this means six updates.
why are there so few options to change in preferences and no support for external plug-ins (like Mendeley and other reference managers that work just fine with OpenOffice)?
As far as I know, Apple if ree to design its produces as it want.
iWork is not designed as a clone of OpenOffice which is a clone of M…oSoft Office.
Happily, one of the rules applying to Apple products design is :
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines:
Apply the 80 Percent Solution
During the design process, if you discover problems with your product design, you might consider applying the 80 percent solution‚ that is, designing your software to meet the needs of at least 80 percent of your users. This type of design typically favors simpler, more elegant approaches to problems.
If you try to design for the 20 percent of your target audience who are power users, your design may not be usable by the other 80 percent of users. Even though that smaller group of power users is likely to have good ideas for features, the majority of your user base may not think in the same way. Involving a broad range of users in your design process can help you find the 80 percent solution.
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I really hope that the Pages Preferences dialog will never resemble to Office one.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)  vendredi 11 janvier 2011 10:53:47
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