Lower portion of long documents unselectable after around a hundred pages..

Once large documents reach a certain length the lower portion cannot be selected - meaning I have to move words onto the following page to edit them. This problem gets worse the larger the document becomes.

As I am oldfashioned, I work quite often upon documents embedding more than 200 pages of text.
The fact that iWork documents are slow is not really linked to the size of the document.
The main problem is that iWork applications are awfully coded. They are always slow and inefficient.
Keeping Activity Monitor active while working with iWork apps is a good way to check that.
As I already wrote, the Appleworks authors were kind enough to calculate only the area to display when it was needed. So, working in page 1 or in page 150 is equally comfortable. Alas, coding this way required brains.
iWork's applications behavior let me think that they are recalculating the entire document after every change which is perfectly ridiculous. Not surprising if, as I already wrote, they were coded by feet.
Inserting a character in a word would logically require the recalculation of no more than a displayed page which may be done in a snap.
Same odd behavior with the Search tool in Numbers (the one activated by cmd + f, not the one oppening the dialog Find & Replace). It start to search when we type one character so we have to wait to be able to type a second one. It seems that waiting for the return char flagging the end of the string to search was too complicated.
It's for this reason that we may loose data if we quit the mac with iWork documents open.
From the system's point of view, the save task is ended when it's not.
This is why I close carefully my documents before quitting the system.
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HELP!? Remove 1 page from long document and shift all the rest pages

Hello,
I am facing to following problem:
I have a long document with facing pages. Now I need to remove one left page in the middle of the document and shift all the rest pages one step forward. It means from all right pages do a left and vice versa (started from the page that was removed). There is a continous text int the whole document and left/right strip made from different photos.
To clarify the situation I am attaching the preview. I have deleted page no.12 and I need to shift page 13 to left, 14 to right after 13, 15 to left, 16 to right after 15 and so on....
Is there any simple way how to do it?
Thank you very much for any tips.

It looks to me as if you may something else going on here. Are you using right-to-left text here so the document binding would be onthe right when the book is closed? If not, your problem is not with page 13 so much as it is with the earlier pages.
Unless you force it to do otherwise by disabling page shuffling someplace, in left-to-right documents using facing pages ID will always put odd numbered pages to the right of the spine and even to the left, the opposite for right-to-left documents. In either case, it seems like you have page shuffling disabled either for the whole file or for a selected spread. You can re-enable it from the menu in the Pages panel. When ID asks if you want to maintain the current number of pages on a spread you should probably say no. Either pages 1-12 will swtch sides, or 13 and following will, and your spreads will rearrange to put two pages together as they should be.
If you have overridden master page objects, a side effect of switching sides on the spread will be that the overridden objects will remain and the new master objects from the other side of the spread will appear behind them.

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Problems displaying and editing long documents on small page sizes
I read this problem have called with the helpdesk they didn't know the solution but how can I find the solution:
In Pages 09, I can't scroll down andand click on text to edit it!! All the mouse will do is draw gray transparentboxes and not place the cursor in the text. Again, like the display problem, itdoesn't happen at the beginning of the doc, but starts showing up around 50 to60 pages in ... I can't select text at the bottom of pages ... at 50 pages, thecursor can be clicked into anyplace on a page. Further and further down, the unselectablearea on any particular page creeps up from the bottom line by line: at 175pages in the unselectable area is 12 lines high; at 360 pages in theunselectable area is 25 lines high. and finally at around 440 pages down, Icannot place the cursor anywhere on any page all the way to the end of thedocument.
I have Page versie 4.1

What you get was described here several times.
As we are end users like you, we can't change the app behavior.
Under 10.6.8 you have the buttons allowing you to scroll one line up or one line down.
Under Lion they are no longer available.
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Removing extra spaces from a long document

Hello
I have seen a number of find/change and GREP formulas to do similar things. I have NO scripting or coding experience and have labored to understand GREP.
So I am a little afraid to use it as I don't know what all the modifiers refer to (I do have a printout of some neat GREP cheatsheets like Mike Witherell's that I can absorb until I obtain a good reference )
I need something I can copy and paste into either find/change or GREP dialog that will do the following in less than 12 steps (hopefully) without doing something catastrophic like removing all of my paragraph marks (which I almost did using someones GREP expression)
No spaces before any comma, period, exclamation mark, question mark, colon, semicolon
One space only after any of those
One Space before any opening parenthesis and one space after the closing parenthesis
No space after the opening parenthesis or before the closing parenthesis
Remove any double or extra spaces ( en, em etc.)
Remove any commas before parentheses
Remove any spaces after a paragraph mark
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A: Removing extra spaces from a long document

Peter is too modest, he's doing just great.
No space BEFORE-One Space after ---period,semicolon,colon, exclamation, question mark,CLOSING Parenth,Bracket,Brace, single & Dbl. quotation marks
Find (\s)([.,;:!\)\]\}~}~]])
Replace with $2
No space AFTER-One Space Before----OPENING bracket,brace,parenthesis,Dbl & single quotes
Find ([\[\{$~{~[])(\s)
Replace with $1
These remove the space before/after but do not automatically add a space after/before.
In the first case, you could add a space right after the '$2' in the Replace With string, but it already may have a space, in which case you suddenly have two. One alternative is to optionally remove it with the Find string (add it as an optional match) and always add it with the Replace string, but remember that this string will only be found if there is a space preceding it. That way you'd only check the space after in cases where there was a bad space before.
So I propose you add another two find/changes to add the space, only when necessary.
One Space After: find
([.,;:!$\]\}~}~]])(?!\s)
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$0 [followed by one single space]
One Space Before: find
(?<!\s)([\[\{$~{~[])
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Color-coding with my WhatTheGrep might make it just a tad clearer what's going on in that jumble of codes:
(1 [ .,;:! $ \] \} ~} ~] ] 1) (?!! \s !)
and
(?<!<! \s <!) (1 [ \[ \{ \( ~{ ~[ ] 1)
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Why does PDF Optimizer no longer reduce size after CS4 upgrade?

I've been able to successfully reduce the size of the PDFs created from my Illustrator files for years using Advanced> PDF Optimizer in Acrobat Pro. Upgraded to CS4 last week. Now it seems to have reduced everything, but the files are still huge. When I check Space Audit 96% or more is taken up by "piece information".
I've tried changing the Adobe PDF presets, the Document Raster Effects settings, and outlining all text in Illustrator to see if that made a difference. Nothing. The frustrating thing is i've done this for years with no problem. HELP?!?!

From: Riannosda <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:06:34 -0600
To: Pamela Myhre <[email protected]>
Subject: Why does PDF Optimizer no longer reduce size
after CS4 upgrade?
Hi, I've found the solution because today it happened to me as well.
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I wrote 6 pages in a document. I wanted to put page 4 before page 3 and could not move them. They had a box around 5 pages and I don't know how I did that, nor do I know how to undo that.

terrymanga wrote:
Guess that's not the solution.
And you guessed wrongly.
On my side, I guess that before opening the menu, you clicked somewhere out of the pages (in the thumbnails areas for instance).
Re try after cliking at the bottom of a page.
The feature is really described in Pages User Guide.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 27 septembre 2011 22:51:27
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Opening a portion of a document given a window handle

I'm using OpenInWindowsEx to open a PDF file in a Windows Forms control in C#. The problem is that I actually have a list of files to open,and need to display a subset of each PDF file in the window. Once I open a specific PDF file in the window, given its handle (using OpenInWindowEx), I can add more "subsets" of documents using pdDoc.InsertPages. This works fine. The problem is that I don't want the full original document, either -- I need to load a subset of the pages.
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That's an interesting solution, and I'll try it. But what if that first document is 400 pages (they often are) and I only want to display 2 pages of the document? Seems like overkill to pay the overhead of loading all 400 pages, and then the overhead of deleting all but the two I want? I'm guessing that since you're an employee, you have the definitive answer, and this is it? That is, there's no way using this (rather thin) API to load a portion of a document into a window? I thought about creating an empty PDF file, always loading that first, and then adding all the pages I need after that. But I don't know that I can create an empty PDF file. Any suggestions? Thanks -- Ken

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I have a book manuscript that has reached 542 pages. When I'm scrolling later pages (in the 400+ area), the preceding page will vanish in favor of the upcoming page. Instead of seeing the end of one, the margin, the little between-space, and then the next page, it's just an entire area of background gray and the beginning of the next page. The further down I am in the manuscript, the greater the lag.
I like Pages a lot, but is this one of those instances where its focus on page-layout shows its weakness with long documents of "pure" writing? I don't want to switch to Nisus or back to Word (shudder); this is the first book I've finished, and that's partly because Pages is so uncluttered.
Reducing the number of pages by shrinking the font and fiddling with spacing and margins reduces the effect; changing the view doesn't seem to. But I have to have it at 12-point Courier / double spaced for printing anyway, so I wish I could edit without having to change its formatting and reduce its number of pages. Maybe I need a sort of "draft" mode.

First, as a novelist myself, I think you're nuts to keep all 500 pages of an important work in a single document. Oh, wait, I do it too. Well, 300 pages, anyway. I didn't used to, not with Word.
Second, I do not think that 1 gig of RAM is "fairly" low.
Third, Nisus is a fine program, but one of the advantages for me of Pages is that it is compatible with Word's track changes, which my publisher used to send back edits.
Four, I'd look at other programs or extensions (or whatever they are called in OS X) that might be causing the scrolling problem with Pages.
Five, unless you're happy with Nisus....
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Long document greenhorn needs help

I want to create a user manual.
Regarding formating, I looked at the Apple iPhone Manual. Something along these lines would be nice.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf
I've never created a book or manual with decent formating, or better said, a polished look.
I have used Pages to an extent. But other than some letters and envelopes, I mainly use the Page Layout side of the program to create one page fliers. For this, I have always used text boxes and inserted graphics when needed. Easy to move things on a single page using page layout, without wrapping slowing me down.
The reason for this post is that I need some help before getting to far into this manual.
1) So from a greenhorn on LONG documents, such as a book or manual, I take it that using the word processor makes more sense than the page layout with text boxes that are linked, as everything naturally wraps upon doing inserts or deleting, or upon cut and paste. That is, there is no need to link one text box to the next as I would have to do on the page layout side, right?
2) Regarding Styles when using Pages, say I decide to change the font of all Chapter Titles after I've typed up everything. Is there an easy way to do this AFTER the book is typed up? Or should I get all my styles and fonts and font sizes established before I start typing away?
3) Are there any templates with styles that are close to the iPhone manual?
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1) So from a greenhorn on LONG documents, such as a book or manual, I take it that using the word processor makes more sense than the page layout with text boxes that are linked, as everything naturally wraps upon doing inserts or deleting, or upon cut and paste. That is, there is no need to link one text box to the next as I would have to do on the page layout side, right?
As your document is going to be very text-heavy, the word processor mode is absolutely the one to go for. Even in that mode, Pages handles images very well in case you will illustrations etc. As you mention, your don't need to link the text in anyway, as the text just goes in one long flow. As you might want new chapters to begin on new pages, you might want to insert page breaks at appropriate places in the Insert > Page Break menu.
2) Regarding Styles when using Pages, say I decide to change the font of all Chapter Titles after I've typed up everything. Is there an easy way to do this AFTER the book is typed up? Or should I get all my styles and fonts and font sizes established before I start typing away?
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Good luck!
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From my point of view, as I refuse to give a cent to M...soft, the best way to deal with documents issued by their Office suite is to use the free libreOffice.
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Hi there,
I am running Pages 3.0 (with all current updates) on an iMac with Os 10.5.7 and 2 Gb of RAM. I have a very long document (almost 200 pages) with pictures and tables that worked fine until yesterday.
I usually make a backup copy of the file every evening just to be sure, however...... it seems that it's not enough!!
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Leonardo Biondi wrote:
Hi there,
I am running Pages 3.0 (with all current updates) on an iMac with Os 10.5.7 and 2 Gb of RAM. I have a very long document (almost 200 pages) with pictures and tables that worked fine until yesterday.
I usually make a backup copy of the file every evening just to be sure, however...... it seems that it's not enough!!
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The same happens if I try to open the backup copy! I am stuck and I can't access the file!!!!!!!!!
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What can I do?? I can't even export the file in Word as it crashes before I can convert him. By the way, the same happens on another Mac: it really seems that the document is now corrupted (without doing anything special...).
The funny thing, is that Quicklook works just fine: if I hit the space bar from the Finder, I can see the content perfectly.
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Simple:
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(2) it would be interesting to send the document to my mail box so I would be able to add it to the set of corrupted documents which I already send to Apple Bugs Hunters to help them idntify the wrongdoers. Click my blue name to get my address.
(3) duplicating the last saved copy is good practice but it's not a true safe protocol.
If the last saved one is odd (like yours) the duplicate will be odd too.
This is why I wrote an Autosave tool which saves every ten minutes but which also keeps chronological date stamped zipped copies.
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