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#1 ·
Something went terribly wrong with my car club magazine that I do in Pages. I had it saved, and exported a .pdf and sent it to a friend. I changed a photo and saved it in Pages and then created a revised .pdf. When I checked it over, in Pages, my 42 page article was there for the first 23 pages then the last pages were blank. I cried. I really did.

Luckily I was able to get it from my friend as a .pdf. How do I open it in Pages again? Or, barring that, how do I swap out the pic I wanted to change? I have Acrobat Pro, but dont know how to use it in that capacity. All I do with it is shrink files or read .pdfs.

Can someone help me? I have 400 people waiting on their magazine.

Thanks
Funkynassau
 
#2 ·
Wow, that's strange. I've never had Pages lose information like that and I've built documents in excess of 100 pages.

You won't be able to open the PDF in Pages. You could use Acrobat to select the text you are missing and paste it back into Pages but you'll lose all formatting.

My recommendation is to setup the page with the photo the way you want it in Pages. Export only that single page as a PDF. Then use Acrobat to delete the same page in the PDF you got from your friend and insert the single page PDF with the new photo in its place.

Make sure to make copies of all files before you start trying to fix this.
 
#4 ·
That really sucks about losing the data -- sorry to hear about that. Do you have Time Machine enabled? Are you sure you don't have a previous version saved somewhere (like in your sent mail folder)?

If all else fails and you have to restore from your PDF, Google just introduced OCR technology that converts PDF documents. I haven't tried it myself, but you can read more about it here:
Uploading image files with text to Google Docs : Uploading and exporting - Google Docs Help
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Google Adds OCR for PDF Files and Images
 
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