Print . . . spinning beachball

Question

I already posted a similar question a few weeks agao, but I’m doing so again in hopes that someone may be able to suggest a work around or fix.
We used to use AW to keep track of invoices for our magazine -- it worked well even though some files were over 200 pages long (each page being a separate invoice.) Since Apple has now abandoned AW, and since we started to experience some issues, we switched our invoices to Pages. But its so frustrating because I get the spinning beachball every time I print a section of a long Pages document.
We have a long Pages file that we use to keep track of invoices. Every page is a separate invoice. I have a new IMac (20 inch, 2.4 Ghz and I Gig of ram). Pages opens and runs fairly fast, but when I try to print, I get the spinning beachball for 20 - 30 -40 seconds or so every time. This is VERY frustrating!!
An earlier reply advised that Pages is designed to load load an entire document when you hit the ‘print’ command, not just the pages that you want to have print. This makes no sense to me and it is what is causing all the problems.
On top of this, in AW you could create a new document and tell the program to start the first page at another page other that page 1 (say #200 for example.) Even though Pages ‘replaced’ AW, you cannot do this. Again, this makes no sense to me.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Eric W.
Victoria, Canada

Answer 1

Hello
The program was not modified since your first question.
So, there is no reason for a new behavior.
Pages is slow. My guess is that this is due to the way it treats XML.
As we are users trying to help other users we can't change that.
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'09
It seems that Apple never understood what we where doing with AppleWorks and designed iWork for a size of documents smaller than the one we are accustomed to.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 8 août 2008 11:20:18)