pages docs corrupted after upgrade to sequoia

Thanks Viking. I'm running Pages version 14.2 (7041.0.109). It's possible that Pages, too, was updated, I don't remember. Maybe that's what caused the problem, not Sequoia. There were 25-30 instances of one image throughout my long document, a small red-line drawing on white. I replaced each manually. Interestingly, clicking on "remove background" in the image pane of the format panel made the line drawing show up, but the lines were black, not red. So it seems Pages gave each instance a black background and somehow made them grayscale.

Could be something else. However, I don't always update promptly. I believe I updated apps just before updating the OS. Who knows? I live in fear of corruption! A new idea… what if that small image had been a .png? Can you see how that would do it? It is a possibility…. BTW, I have many backups of the document. Every one of them opens with the black squares instead of the correct image.

I agree. However, it happened. I did a screen share with an Apple Pages support guy (Adam). He saw the issue but could not explain it either. I'll post here if there's ever an explanation. Your interest is appreciated!

Update: I just opened an old MSWord file which was my Pages doc saved as docx (long ago), and the same image file is corrupted. Must be the image itself. Probably is a .png, but I can't tell.