Apple iWork Mime Types

Question

I was wondering what the mime type for iWork's Pages is? And also what the mime type is for the rest of the software in the iWork suite? I looked around online and I didn't see it anywhere.

score 38 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 19 '21 at 17:10

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I recently needed this for work and ended up just uploading some files and querying the mimetypes. I found the following:

keynote: application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey
pages: application/x-iwork-pages-sffpages
numbers: application/x-iwork-numbers-sffnumbers

2021 Update

Please note that this answer is now outdated and the following content types have been approved by IANA:

edited Aug 19 '21 at 17:10

zcoop98

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answered Sep 18 '12 at 16:25

Ian Burnette

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what's the meaning of the "sff" prefix? Is it related to the different versions of Apple Iwork? – Geoffrey R. Jul 17 '15 at 08:50
You saved my day! – Peter Guan Aug 13 '18 at 05:14
pages: application/x-iwork-pages-sffpages --> Not working for android – Manikandan K Mar 18 '21 at 10:28

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '09 at 14:43

Looks like Apple doesn't much care, since installing iWork does not add any mime type information to any of its system mime-type info reps (in /etc/cups and /etc/apache2), "Get Info" on an iWork file shows no mime-type, etc. The only hint I've found is in Page's info.plist (a copy's online here) which mentions:

            <key>public.filename-extension</key>
            <array>
                <string>pages</string>
            </array>
            <key>public.mime-type</key>
            <array>
                <string>application/x-iwork-pages-sffpages</string>
            </array>

and a similar one for filename-extension "template", with "-sfftemplate" as the suffix instead of "-sffpages".

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 10 '18 at 16:56

  application/vnd.apple.keynote
  application/vnd.apple.pages
  application/vnd.apple.numbers

Just got it approved with IANA. You will find the list at the below link. https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml.

You can use mime-db https://github.com/jshttp/mime-db to validate using javascript

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 09 '11 at 17:23

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This URL shows some other types in case new readers need it:

Apache Jira Issue TIKA-588

application/vnd.apple.keynote, application/vnd.apple.pages, application/vnd.apple.numbers

answered Dec 09 '11 at 17:23

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 16 '16 at 06:20

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Actually, those files are all a masked zipfile. So, some systems might indicate their mimetype simply as application/zip.

answered May 16 '16 at 06:20

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