Pages very slow since update

Question

I'd read about people having trouble with some of the templates being very slow, but I've been noticing that ever since applying the update, typing in Pages is agonizingly slow on my computer. I'm working from blank templates, so it can't be something graphical, and using standard fonts like helvetica and Palatino. I've deleted prefs, etc. etc. and no improvement. It was fine before the update, although that may be coincidental.
Is anyone else seeing this? A document is fine when I first open it, but within a few minutes it becomes incredibly slow. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Please remember that Keynote has been out for quite some time, and has several upgrades since it'sinception. Pages is still quite new, and has not had as much work done to it.
That being said, I did find a lag in typing on my system, but only in a certain instance.
If I create an entire document using the blank template, with several pages in the document (all blank) I find no text lag while typing on any of the pages.
If I create a document with a relatively heavy-graphic template and create several pages with a mix and match of different styles (some text, some graphicky) I find that there is a definite slow down the closer you are to the top of the document. For instance, typing on page one is a lot slower than on the last page.
Could it be that the text entry speed is based on where in the document you are typing? Comsidering this is basically the live update of a text-heavy xml document (and trust me, there is a lot of text in the xml document) this would stand to reason.
I seem to remember there was a similar problem tying into Keynote in one of it's early generations. Since then it has been updated to fix some of those issues. I'm sure they are working on Pages as well.
In the meantime, you probably wouldn't notice this if you were adding pages as you went, instead of adding all the pages and then inserting your text. Not the best workaround for some people, but it might be something to try.
(my texts were done on a 800Mhz G4 ibook with the zoom set to fit on the page)