Slow typing problem

I am having a problem where the type on the screen in Pages 2 can't keep up with my typing speed. I only type about 40-40 words per minutes. This was not a problem in Pages 1. Help...

Hello Appraiser,
there are a lot of posts about this issue in this forum. To maximize the respond of Pages is to:
1) Hide the thumbnail view with the menu: "View/Show(Hide) Thumbnails".
2) If there are a lot of images, shapes or tables, use the wrap option "follow contour" and not "rectangle" in the bottom section of the wrap inspector.
3) If there are a lot of images, shapes or tables with the fix positioned oprion set, Pages has to recalculate a lot the text positiones, because there is heavy text flow in long sections. Try to avoid that.
Do a search for "slow typing", there are more advices and suggestions.
Frank.

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I think I've uncovered a (maybe the) cause of the slow typing complaints that's worthy of a new topic. I had severe problems with the trifold brochure, and found that some other templates also were "slow typing" templates. After reading all the posts here, with at least a dozen different fixes, none of which fixed my particular probelm, I started experimenting. What I found was interesting.
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This change made a HUGE difference in the trifold brochure, and a noticeable difference in a couple of the others that I tried. Some tables, especially those with pictures, not text, are disguised and not easy to recognize, so if you're having the notorious "slow typing" problem, look carefully at tables in your document as a possible cause.

I am a scientist who needs to write grants and papers with long text sections and embedded figures. I LOVE the way Pages handles graphics but even with a 12 page document with 3 small tables and 2 figures I am waiting 10-20 seconds for the typing to catch up (doing all the suggestions in these threads)! Together with the fact that there is no direct link to referencing programs like Endnote (which I am forced to use to interact with PC-based colleagues) makes Pages decidedly less useful than the Phantom Menace - MS Word. That beast uses 1/3 the CPU percentage and works faster in general than this lean, mean, Apple product. NOTE TO APPLE: Please please please bring users like me back from the dark side!!
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I kind of solved this problem, but I would also like to know if there are better solutions.
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Right now it is not a big deal because only 2 other chapters are complete enough to link into. However, as this project progresses, there will likely be cross references to many chapters, and it will be more of a pain to have to open all of the documents in order to edit a single document.
Could there be a setting somewhere that is causing ID to constantly update cross references with each key stroke?

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☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
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Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
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Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
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After upgrading from acrobat 9.5 to XI pro my users have complained on slow typing when filling in form that were created in version 9.5?
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I see, I misread your reference to Reader 11 to mean you were using Acrobat 11, but it looks like it worked out anyway.
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If issue persists, this is a network permissions issue on the server, if it goes away it is a local software issue on the Mac and a clean install of the OS may be needed if you can't locate the meddlesome settings/software.

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Hi ,
We are happy to inform you that DW's next update is made available today. This update has a fix for the slow typing issues in DW Please install & let us know your thoughts
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Well, when typing in MAIL, the letters manifest VERY SLOWLY. I am know ACE typist, and it can't keep up with me. I type even a few characters, and wait for several seconds for my textual desires to appear.
This was well discussed under Snow Leopard, I see.
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Is anybody experiencing really slow typing in DW CS6 on a Mac?
Regardless of what I type, the code only apears at a rate of 3 characters per second! Does anybody know what may be causing this? Is it an incompatability, a bug, or some rendering issue???
I'm running this on an old MacPro1,1 / NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB with 8GB Ram, SSD drives OSX Lion 10.7.3.
This slow behaviour is not noticed on other CS6 apps...
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Hi again,
(purchased version)
MacPro 1,1 : 2.66GHz 4 core (the original problematic machine)
I've just upgraded to OS X 10.7.4, and it appears to be much better (possibly a combination of the reboot!).
The typing is now only slightly slow - not too bad at my typing speed, but it could annoy faster typers. Still - it's much faster than 3 characters per second.
The CPU usage, however still remains.
Within the body tag of a new html file, if I type any text the CPU usage for the Dreamweaver process leaps from 1.5% to 58%.
Again, this drops down the second I stop typing, and goes back up when I resume.
I have no DW CS6 extensions enabled on this machine.
NOTE: When I returned to DW6 to disable the RELATED FILES option, it had gotten really slow again (so it slowed down after some time passed).
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HOWEVER, the CPU usage remains very high whilst typing, regardless of perceived slowness, or status of RELATED FILES option.
On a slower, but newer MacPro 4,1 : 2.26GHz 8 core ; running 10.6.8 with same SSD & RAM, the fresh installation runs quickly (without post-install reboot) and the CPU only goes to 20% whilst typing in the same situation.
I have no DW CS6 extensions installed on this machine.
I have an old MacBook Pro 2,2, also on SSD with 2GB RAM currently on 10.7.3 I'll do some tests on it when I get a moment, but this may have to wait until next week.

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