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    • September 9, 2010 at 4:06 am #56953
      Richard Stenlund
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      Hello.

      I have to find out if anyone else have had the same problem as we´ve had with Indesgn CS5. Our Macs are not brand new, but about 1 1/2 year old and there is 4 gB of RAM inside. But when we started to use CS5 it´s just extremely slow. Rezising and moving images/objects works like something that flashes around on the screen. It´s hard to align objects to guides and grids because Indesign reacts so slow when you release the mouse button that the object follows the mouse pointer around for half a second more before it releases. If you copy an image, the new one looks lighter than the original. To make it more smoothly I´ve already turned of the aligning feature from CS4 and also the circle inside the images but nothing works. I´ve also set low resolution for images in preferences.

      Since I convinced my boss that CS5 would be a real timesaver, it would be difficult to tell that we have to downgrade again due to performance issues. I can also point out that all my colleauges are having the exactly same problem and now blames me for the not so very succesful upgrade from CS3. So please, is there anyone who could havesome great tips of how to do. Could an upgrade to Snow Leopard help us out? It feels like it could be some kind of memory issue but shouldn´t it be enough with 4 gb of RAM?

      //Kind Regards Richard

      PS. Sorry for my a bit poor english but I hope you´ll understand our problem

    • September 9, 2010 at 5:10 am #56954
      Theunis De Jong
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      Disabling Live Screen Redraw in the preferences should help you get going. I can't imagine what the developers were using — liquid nitrogen cooled octo-core systems with a terabyte of RAM, something like that?

      Working in CS4, I also leave Live Spell Check and Autocorrect switches off (as all of my text comes from external sources), and Live Preflight too (since “Dead Preflight” would have been a better name).

      Only when I'm finished working on a document I switch Live Preflight on, then go have a cup o' coffee, and come back to read … “No errors”. (At least, on the good days.)

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