[Express] 'Import Text' doesn't work with Pages

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I am still learning Freeway and working my way through the online tutorials. One of them shows how you can import text from a Pages document into a HTML box. I’ve just tried this and my Pages document is not selectable in the Import menu.
I’m using Pages '09 version 4.1 and Freeway Express 5.6.1.
The import works from a TextWrangler document.

Geoff

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Why not just copy/paste from your Pages doc.

I dont have Express to try the import method.

David

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Copy & Paste from Pages works but I was interested in finding out if this is a bug or if the Pages import feature has been removed from Express.

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Hmm I’m a bit unsure where you saw the “Import from Pages” online tutorial cause I never thought about it - but run a quick test with it and it seems to be impossible to import from the .pages format (Pro Version). But it is possible to do from the .txt (plain text) what in fact makes much more sense (Export them in Pages).

Why does it probably make more sense?

If you’d import a formated text you import the preset formats as well. But as an experience, this makes more trouble than fun cause those styles normally needs to be removed and substituted by the “Freeway Styles”. Even with the copy and paste method you import part of the styles.

So importing plain text is (for long text passage) much more easier to handle and restyled quick 'n dirty in Freeway.

Cheers

Thomas

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