Slow Performance in Pages 4.0.3

Using Pages 4.0.3, I'm working on a rather lengthy document well over 50,000 words, 115 pages, plus graphics and counting. When using pages, performance becomes so poor that keystrokes, spell-check options, scrolling etc. and other functions have a noticeable delay. It's like i'm working in slow motion. Behavior is the same with or without the external display, with or without handful of USB peripherals, on LAN or off.
Performance monitor reveals Pages spiking to 102% to 105% CPU utilization during almost any activity. That sounds like safari's performance problem. Does Pages, too, have similar tricks to refresh it's performance?
Or is my document just too big for Pages?
Thanx -- JD

This is the problem working with actual graphics instead of links and a positional image.
But that's Pages!
As usual you will have to do some crazy time wasting work-around or put up with it.
A suggestion might be to have 2 images for each used in the document. A screen resolution version and a print resolution, then substitute the hi-res for the lo-res before final output.
Besides the time wasted on this mundane task that should be handled by the application, you have the inevitable need to repeatedly do this when every "final" turns out to need editing again. Also the inevitable mistakes made when you can't tell lo-res from hi-res at a glance on screen.
Again the Studio Manager in me comes up with another work around (Pages needs another menu for a "Work-Around Manager"). I would tint the lo-res images as a precaution against slipping through the manual editing.
On the other hand you could just switch to something that actually does the job, programmed by people who know what the job entails.
Peter

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