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CS5 Moving Graphics or Text Boxes very Jerky

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    • May 27, 2010 at 2:48 pm #55842
      Duger53
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      I've googled this problem and it seems that I'm not alone. I'm posting here because the ID Secrets duo are awesom, never miss a podcast since #1.

      Details: moving text boxes or graphics is a nightmare. Moving a box to align with another box, there is such a lag between the mouse movement and the screen redraw that I'm past the point (say, center line, for instance) before I know it. move it back and try to go slow. It takes a long time and, often, I just resort to the arrow key but that doesn't give you the auto align features. In CS4, the movement is very smooth and very easy to align even large graphics. I've gone to the Adobe site and enter this as a bug.

      Hardware: MacPro 3 GHz, 8 processors, 8 gigs RAM, next step up from the standard video card. Not a slow system by any stretch.

      Any thoughts suggestions, etc?

    • May 27, 2010 at 3:53 pm #55843
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Hi Duger53: What happens if you go to Preferences (cmd/ctrl-K), choose the Interface pane, and set Live Screen Drawing to Delayed. That makes it work like it did in CS4 and should speed things up. Yes?

      (Many people love live screen drawing, but I find it really annoying.)

    • May 27, 2010 at 5:16 pm #55844
      Duger53
      Participant

      David,

      A thousand thank yous. That works just fine now. So Live Screen Drawing set on immediate is a feature, I think not! I'm with you about it being annoying. Maybe this could be an InDesign Secrets Obsure (and awful) feature of the week ek ek ek.

      Another issue I'm having, I'll ask you before I go to Adobe and tell them they have a bug again. When I leave InDesign (command tab) to another app and then back again. Quite often the screen shows the contents of another tab yet the tab that was live when I left still shows it is active (hightlighted). It is very weird because you cannot do anything to the document that is showing because it is not active. Once I click on the active tab, the correct docment pops back and everything is fine. Any experiece with this one?

      Thanks again David, I really appreciate your podcasts both audio and video. If you ever get to my neck of the woods I hope to meet you in person.

    • May 28, 2010 at 5:48 am #55846
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I have seen some weirdness around panels being open, and yes I think that's a bug. But I haven't figured out exactly when it happens and when it doesn't.

      I don't know where your neck of the woods are, but I hope we'll get there if we wander around long enough! :)

    • June 1, 2010 at 1:39 am #55870
      Tutelut
      Member

      Thank you sooo much for this tip! You have saved the day for my entire graphic department. :-)

    • March 15, 2012 at 10:20 am #61806
      Margie Deeb
      Participant

      David Blatner said:

      Hi Duger53: What happens if you go to Preferences (cmd/ctrl-K), choose the Interface pane, and set Live Screen Drawing to Delayed. That makes it work like it did in CS4 and should speed things up. Yes?

      (Many people love live screen drawing, but I find it really annoying.)

      THan kyou thank you! I can't tell you how much precoious time I've wasted with this problem. I should have come here the moment it started… you folks are the greatest. I've learned my lesson. I'll just keep this site up in a browser tab 24/7.

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