April 2015 - Davide Airaghi

Do you need to open and read on your Linux box files generated on Mac OsX using Pages? Below how i’m doing it. create file /usr/local/bin/pages edit /usr/local/bin/pages and inserte the following code

#!/bin/sh
PDFV=evince  # your favorite pdf viewer
FILEP="$1"
FILET=$(mktemp)
mv $FILET ${FILET}.pdf
DIRP=$(dirname $FILEP)
cd $DIRP
unzip -jp "$1" QuickLook/Preview.pdf > ${FILET}.pdf
$PDFV ${FILET}.pdf
cd -
rm -f ${FILET}.pdf

#!/bin/sh

PDFV=evince # your favorite pdf viewer

FILEP="$1"

FILET=$(mktemp)

mv $FILET ${FILET}.pdf

DIRP=$(dirname $FILEP)

cd $DIRP

unzip -jp "$1" QuickLook/Preview.pdf > ${FILET}.pdf

$PDFV ${FILET}.pdf

cd -

rm -f ${FILET}.pdf

at line 2 insert the full path of your favorite pdf viewer make executable the newly created file ( chmod +x …

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