Pages is slow on some people's machines, but for most of us, there is no problem. No one has a fool proof method of solving the problem, when it appears. These are some things people have found solved the problem. For some people, nothing has helped at all.
1. Do you have any PostScript Fonts installed? Some people have reported problems with some PostScript Fonts.
2. Do you have any missing fonts? When you open the document, does Pages complain that it cannot find one or several fonts?
3. Do you have corrupt fonts? Open FontBook, select all fonts and then File > Validate Fonts.
4. Corrupt pictures, songs and movies in your home folder's Movies, Music and Pictures folders can slow down the product through the Media Browser. AVI films in the Movie folder can slow things down, as QT usually cannot play them.
5. Go to View > Hide > Layout. For some reason the layout slows things down.
6. Don't view Thumbnails.
7. Use the Text Fit option "follow contour" instead of "follow a square" in the bottom section of the wrap inspector.
8. If an object is set to wrap, and a wrapped side squeezes out any possibility of text wrapping along that side - such as extending a text box to the margin, the extreme slowdown will occur. So don't.
9. Use as few objects as possible Fixed on Page. Instead use Moves with Text.
10. Reduce the resolution of your screen.
11. Reduce the number of colours of your screen.
12. Change your video card. (Yes, even the screen hardware may be the source of the problem.)
4 comments:
Turned off Thumbnails - HUUUUUUUUUGE increase in performance. Thanks for the tip.
Me too. Turning off Thumbnails made the difference.
Yup...turning off Thumbnails makes a HUGE difference!! Who would have thought? Thanks for the tip!!
Thanks so much for these tips. The one that did it for me was Validating all the fonts. I found out that there were fonts that are duplicated. By Clicking "Resolve Automatically" for each of the affected fonts (marked by a yellow triangle), and restarting Pages, the performance improved tremendously.
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