Can I stop the continuous saving of Pages document?

Can I stop the continuous saving of Pages (iwork) document? I am currently working on a large Pages document - a school handbook that is topping 500mb due to the photographs. On a Macbook Pro I7 with SSD drive the continuous saving of the document when I do the slightest change is driving me to distraction - I have no idea what it would be like with non-SSD! It takes around 30 seconds each time I move a single photograph. Can I stop this versioning that Pages does?
Thanks

Your problem is not linked to versioning but to AutoSave.
Autosave try to save every change when we leave the app "unoccupied" for a short time and, if we don't, it force save on a regular basis. It's this feature which is at work in what you describe.
By default, Versions apply once an hour or when you force it pressing cmd + s so it's not it which is at work.
My own tip when I want to edit a large file is to rename it from azerty.pages into azerty.template.
This way, when I start a session upon this doc, I don't work on a document which was already saved once, I work on one which was never saved so, Autosave doesn't apply.
CAUTION: this feature is killed after the first save process.
Happily, there is an answer :
Use my script Save_As (thanks to FastScripts I gave it the shortcut cmd+shift+s) or use it encapsulated in a Service by Peggy.
This script trigger File > Duplicate
then File > Save…
This way it allow us to keep consecutive files storing the contents of our work in progress but the document upon which we work remains unsaved so free of AutoSave feature.
We retrieve what we were doing under 10.6.8.
To be able to work a more comfortable way, we will have to wait the delivery of the next upgrade which, I guess, will be iCloud aware which require deep changes in the app design so that it will be able to save the documents by small blocks as was explained during the late WWDC seminars.
Now, I will give a less technical advice :
I'm quite sure that on the long run, it would be better to replace your larges picture files by smaller ones fitting the true requirements. Inserting files with a rez greater than 300 dpis in the printed size is counterproductive. As you see, I add my vote to fruhulda's one. She was also perfectly right when she urged you to crop your pictures out of Pages. This one doesn't crop the pictures, it put a mask hiding what you wan't to drop.
It's fine to build quickly a draft of a document but for the final work, it's better to prepare the pictures with a dedicated application.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 17 novembre 2011 21:03:46
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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