Pages 4.1 slow under Lion

My wife has a newish 27" iMac, loads of memory, just updated to Lion and Pages 4.1. She dragged me into her office to show how slow Pages 4.1 is while typing in a document that has graphics, about 1/2 second to render each character. Same behavior with the previous version of Pages under Lion, but never an issue under Snow Leopard. Not a problem with a text-only document.
Known issue? Any thoughts about a workaround?

It's not Lion which isn't optimized.
Pages which was already a snail  just received a quick and dirty update to accomodate the Lion features and of course this kind of addition never enhace performances.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 3 août 2011 10:36:18
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
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