Trouble Printing Pages Document

I have created a two page, Pages document, I used one of the templates for a news letter. It has text and 15 pictures imported from my photos in iphoto.
When I print lower quality draft versions it works fine. But when i want a high quality print, the printer stops near the bottom of the first printed page and just stalls. Whats going on?
Here is what I have
Slot loading iMac, 400 MHz Power PC G3, 512 ram memory (1slot)
128 GB internal hard drive, Mac OS X 10.4.8
Pages version 1.0.2 ( 2 page document w/ 15 pctures & text, size 8.3 MB)
Printer Canon Pixma iP 1500 ( Installed latest driver from Canon last night)
Most of the pictures are pretty small, 1-1/2" x 2", would it be better to reduce the image MB size by using iPhoto to export it as a smaller size version, and replace the images in my document to make the overall document size smaller?
Carlson
Slot loading imac Mac OS X (10.3)

I've had the same problem.
Try this for printing:
- in print dialogue go to Paper Handling and set to 'scale document to paper size A4' (or whatever size you are using)
And try this for e-mailing:
- open print dialogue window, in the bottom left corner click on PDF and 'Save as Postscript'
- you get a huge PS file. Open it with Acrobat (or Preview) and you will get a compact PDF file which is good for e-mailing or printing.
If you have a full version of Acrobat there is also and option 'Reduce file size'.
I struggled a lot while trying to find a way to create mailable files from Pages. The three step solution (Pages-PostScript-PDF) seems to work best.
I've published several articles on this at
http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com
Hope this helps,
Sashura
Normandy
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