Text appears slower than typing

Al,

When this sort of thing happens to me, the first thing I do is start the program Activity Monitor. Click on the CPU Monitor column If the triangle points up click again. With a down-pointing triangle, the top CPU-using app will top the list. That may give you a clue as to what is slowing you down.

It might be a program that you don't even need to have running at the time, so if that's the case, just Quit that program.

Also, click the buttons across the lower portion of the Activity Monitor window and see if there's any unusual activity there. Especially look for an absence of Free Memory.

A good thing to try for any of these problems is to close everything and Restart your computer. That may be all it takes to get things working well again.

Jerry

No, I haven't heard about it before. When something like this happens you can try Pages in another account. If it work i a new account it is something wrong in the old one and not in Pages per se.
Then delete the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist. Restart Pages and see if it works.

Some files are connected to the user, like the plist-files, even if Pages is installed to be used for all users on a computer. You can create a new user account on you computer in the System Preferences > Accounts. Log Out of your original account and log in on the new account. Start Pages in the new account and see if it behaves or have the same problem as in the original account. This procedure is done for diagnostic purposes.

If Pages misbehaves in both accounts it is the application that has the problem. What to do then we can talk about later.

I would delete Pages/iWork, restart the computer, run Repair permissions on DiscUtility or Onyx and then install iWork/Pages again. I presume you have the suite iWork and not just Pages.

Yvan has on _ https://public.me.com/koenigyvan_ a script called "uninstall iWork '09.zip". download it and use it. It will delete all necessary files.

Sorry that I give such short instructions but it is way over my bedtime. See you tomorrow!

Nicanor,

It's generally obvious who you are responding to, but as a courtesy, would you please click the Reply button in the post of the person you are speaking to? Thanks.

How about Text edit and other apps that require typing? Do you have similar CPU use when typing there? Do you have any third party apps or services that might be affecting the processor when you are in Pages? Any changes to your system that you can correlate with this performance problem, such as downloading and installing 10.6.7?

Jerry

Nicanor,

Without seeing your document it's hard to say exactly why it's working so hard to place added text in the vicinity of that table. It's a good bet that Pages is working furiously on wrapping a lot of text every time you add a character. A workaround would be to create the edit in another Pages document, or in TextEdit, and then paste it in all at once. The occasional page break or section break would probably tame down the situation because the calculations on text position wouldn't cover such a large range in the document.

Jerry

Jerrold Green1 wrote:
Nicanor,

The occasional page break or section break would probably tame down the situation because the calculations on text position wouldn't cover such a large range in the document.

Jerry

Yes, I believe that too, Jerry!

It would be interesting to know the size of the document, at least the count of words.

Maybe I missed something but I don't know which is the exact version in use.
Is it Pages v.4.0.5 ?

How was your system updated as 10.6.6 ?
Was it thru Software update?
If it was, hurry up, download and apply the combo updater.

The 10.6.6 one is available from :
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1349

the 10.6.7 one is available from :
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1361

There is an annoying bug in 10.6.7 so, it's not necessarily be a good idea to apply the 10.6.7 one.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 9 avril 2011 12:57:30

Slow downs are usually due to not enough disk space being available (10-20% of the HD is a good idea).

OR you are saving to a slow location such as over a server.

OR there is a problem with your fonts.

OR you have a lot of images/objects with word wrap that needs to be calcualted everytime you add text.

Peter

N,

I'd be curious how things would go if you Insert a Page Break at the bottom of the page you are editing. When you are finished with the edits, delete the Page Break.

Jerry