Currently on MacBook Air - looking to move to Linux. Does anyone know of a batch converter to convert Apple Pages documents to ODT?
Why do you want to batch-convert files to ODT? What is the reason? Why not keep them in original format, until you actually decide to edit one of them, at which point convert only that one?
Because the external format support is never perfect, but it usually improves over time. So converting all your files today, you use today’s imperfect import - and if some content imports poorly today, you will get those results. But if you actually will need to edit some document in a year, and convert it then with then-current LibreOffice, you will use possible improved import code, which might convert those pieces better…
Thanks for the sarcasm! - DuckDuck Go didn’t come up with that hit and I refuse to use Google. You could have just posted the link, but thanks for the pointer.
Mike - LO won’t currently open Pages documents - at least LO 6.3.5.2 on MacOS won’t. I don’t want to have to convert them all to docx first…
LO can import some Apple Pages versions since 5.0: LibreOffice 5.0: Release Notes - The Document Foundation Wiki . I have no idea about the quality and state in current 6.4. There are tools like GitHub - unoconv/unoconv: Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice., which can help batch converting documents using LO.
Ah, so the context is not using LibreOffice, but some external tool (I read “batch converter” as some code to batch-convert using LibreOffice…).
And yes, LibreOffice can import some Pages documents - so it was not clear from the question that the issue is LibreOffice can’t do it for your documents.