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Got bloated InDesign files taking up too much space on your hard drive? Do your files take forever to move across your local network or download from the Cloud?
Here are five ways to slim down the size of your InDesign files and I promise none of them involves drinking kale smoothies or planking.
- Don’t copy and paste image content from Photoshop or a web browser.
- Don’t leave unused page items in your files (stuff on pasteboards, extra master pages, styles, and so on).
- Do choose File > Save As to create a fresh copy of your document.
- Do resize images and set their resolution in Photoshop before you place them in InDesign.
- Do export as IDML to clear out corruption and unneeded gunk.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on February 16, 2016
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