Can Pages 5 (a.k.a. Pages ’13) import Pages ’08 documents

If you're trying to roll your own solution, the actual .pages file is a package. If you right click it, you can show package contents. Inside the resulting folder will be all the graphic files plus a file called index.xlm.gz. If you unzip the file, it is an xml file containing all the text in the pages document.

I was able to fix this by doing the following steps:

1. Create a new pages document, and just throw in whatever text. Save it.
2. A .pages file is actually a .zip file, so right click on that and unzip it.
3. In your 09 pages file, right click and select "Show Package Contents"
4. Copy everything from the Index directory of your 09 pages doc to the Index directory of the new one.
5. Zip up your new one, the one you unzipped and copied in the 09 index files.
6. Rename the zip file you just created with a .pages extension
7. Open in pages.