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• • June 4, 2018 at 3:08 am #104160
    Adrien Durup

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    Hi everyone,
    I’m working on a new workflow, and a new file tree. As i’m trying to obtain better performances from InDesign, i was wondering if the way my images were stored had an impact on it.
    Like, is it better to store images in just a few folders ?
    May i create as many folders as i want with no impact ?
    Does image size affect performance ?

    I was thinking of a structure like this :
    IMG/0-1000/product_ref_number(from 0 to 1000,1 folder for 1 ref)/WORK_FILES(tiff)
    IMG/0-1000/product_ref_number(from 0 to 1000,1 folder for 1 ref)/HD(jpg)
    IMG/0-1000/product_ref_number(from 0 to 1000,1 folder for 1 ref)/MD(jpg)
    IMG/0-1000/product_ref_number(from 0 to 1000,1 folder for 1 ref)/LD(jpg)
    IMG/1001-2000/product_ref_number(from 1001 to 2000)/WORK_FILES(tiff)
    IMG/1001-2000/product_ref_number(from 1001 to 2000)/HD(jpg)
    IMG/1001-2000/product_ref_number(from 1001 to 2000)/MD(jpg)
    IMG/1001-2000/product_ref_number(from 1001 to 2000)/LD(jpg)
    …

    Along with 2 indesign scripts (and more to come) :
    1) one to open the tif related to a linked jpg or tif
    2) one to relink all the links to HD/MD/LD jpgs, regarding to the img size ratio, with the idea to optimize images weight.

    and a photoshop script which update jpgs in HD/MD/LD when tif is saved.

    Is all of this pointless ? May it be a good path to follow ?

    Thanks for reading my approximative english.

    Adrien

  • June 4, 2018 at 3:52 pm #104201
    Graham Park

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    I have not tested this but I doubt there will be any difference to the speed by storing files in separate folders etc.
    The only thing that will affect speed at times is how fast the storage device is. A faster drive will open and update quicker a slow network connect to where files are stored will slow the process down.
    But the folders will not make a difference.

  • June 5, 2018 at 12:05 am #104203
    Adrien Durup

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    That’s what i’m hoping for.
    As my images are actually stored on a storage server, using light JPGs when possible would definitely help, then…
    I’ll test the idea on a big INDD file with tons of links, as soon as possible, and get back here to tell what i found out.

  • June 6, 2018 at 12:33 am #104214
    Niels JÌürgen Pedersen

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    Make sure all your images are hi-res. InDesign only imports the prewiew-fil, wich is in 72 dpi, but if your image IS 72 dpi, InDesign imports the whole file.
    If the image is 300 dpi, the prewiew is only 72 dpi, and InDesign has to handle a smaller file.
    If you have more than thousand images placed, this make a huge difference in the performance!

  • June 6, 2018 at 12:55 am #104215
    Adrien Durup

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    all my jpgs are, of course, 300 dpi. For each image i’ve got 4 versions : tif, big jpg (100% of original width), medium (width : 50%), small (width : 25%), so i do not modify dpi.
    Though, good to know that 72 dpi images are wholly imported, didn’t know !

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