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• • January 16, 2017 at 10:29 am #91288
    Étienne Bassal

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    Hi,

    I’m using, as stated in the title, InDesign CC2017 and, quite extensively, the MathMagic Pro 9.3 plugin to directly type equations into documents. I’m a student and I use InDesign as a word editor, so my documents are usually composed of one “master” text frame that is threaded for all the pages in the document; and there are a lot of equations. I’ve done this for a while without any issues, using a combination of CC2014 and MathMagic 9.2.

    However, since I upgraded the two pieces of software, I experienced some heavy performance drops. It seems the more there are equations, the more InDesign gets slower (I’m talking here of about 5-6 seconds delay when type “backspace”, for example).

    Does anyone have any suggestion as to, let’s say, a certain element in the preferences of one or both software I could tweak in order to boost performance? Or any other idea? That would be very appreciated as the current form is not workable. Thanks.

  • January 16, 2017 at 1:31 pm #91297
    David Blatner

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    It would be interesting to see if performance is still bad if you remove that plug-in. If so, you may have to discuss it with the MathMagic company. But if the performance is still bad, then it’s possible that it’s a problem with InDesign.

    Make sure you try rebuilding your preferences.
    https://creativepro.com/why-is-indesign-soooo-slow.php

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    • January 16, 2017 at 4:48 pm #91301
      Étienne Bassal

      Member

      Well, in some documents I created, I didn’t use the MathMagic plugin at all (although it was installed). The issues start when the plugin is used. I’ll try contacting the company, thanks.

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