Q: Huge lag in Pages when editing documents with many elements
So I've been using Pages since it came out, and have found the workflow to generally generally pretty fantastic for layout work, so I've used it to design a number of posters and the like. More recently I've begun designing board game material in Pages, which has had me creating documents with literally hundreds of elements, shapes, lines, text boxes, etc. They are simple elements, and the file sizes of the documents are small, but I've found that Pages seems to quickly get bogged down simply by so number of elements, resulting in is a huge lag time between initiating an edit and seeing the result (well over a second).
At first I thought this had to do with my aging iMac, but I recently upgraded to a brand new 3.5 GHz i7, with 16GB RAM, and a Fusion drive. Every element of this computer should be speedy enough to handle this sort of work without delay, but yet the problem persists. Is this just a flaw in the way Pages was coded? Is there a fix?
Posted on Jun 27, 2014 2:33 PM
The problem is with Pages 5, which I am assuming you are using, but haven't said.
Try using Pages '09 instead.
Peter
Posted on Jun 27, 2014 4:58 PM