Scanned images makes pages slow, causes crash

Question

I have a 40 page document into which I have scanned about 15 pages. The Pages doc is 388mb and is slow to open, in fact it pretty much just crashes at this point. I managed to export it to Word and the same doc. is only 2.3mb and opens easily and I can still work in it. I would prefer any tips that would make oit possible for me to do the whole doc. in pages.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I have a 40 page document into which I have scanned about 15 pages. The Pages doc is 388mb and is slow to open, in fact it pretty much just crashes at this point.
In professional prepress where scans are of significant size, the assembly application lets you link to the scan instead of including the scan in the pagination document.
This leads to problems no end since you can't colour manage what you can't include, and you can have links break which leaves you without what it was you linked to.
So on the whole putting the scans into the pagination is a safer solution, but not if the assembly application crashes, of course.
Here a few things you can do to slim the size of your scans.
First, size your scans before you place them rather than placing scans that are oversize and then scaling them in the interface which still leaves the oversize scan behind the scenes.
Second, select a compression format for your scans that is sensible for what they are scans of - for monochrome 1 bit select Bitmap, for grayscale and colour select JPEG.
JPEG supports colour management in the application as does TIFF, but TIFF does not support compression. If you intend to print on a press, you will need to select image sharpening and OutputIntent for the specific printing condition.
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