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InDesign slow with embedded images

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    • March 25, 2018 at 4:29 pm #102611
      Clark Kenyon
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      I’m helping a client “repair” his InDesign file (always a big mistake) so that he can export a PDF that will not be rejected by his printer. The 675 MB document has 83 images, all embedded, and the further I go into it, the longer it takes to do anything, until by the end every keystroke and mouse click takes at least a minute to register. I am assuming embedding the images causes this, right? (I want to be able to explain this to the client.)

    • March 26, 2018 at 12:09 am #102622
      Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
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      Try to un-embed the images. InDesign is not ment to embed all images. It will become very, very slow. Link the images instead.

      If you link an image, InDesign only import the preview-image into the file. But when you create the pdf, InDesign uses the hi-res file.

    • March 26, 2018 at 5:39 am #102631
      Clark Kenyon
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      Thanks for the advice, and I understand the process of unlinking. But we’re beyond that by now. I just wanted affirmation of my theory that it’s the embedded images that make progress through the document get more and more sluggish until, by the last page, it can take 3 minutes to select an object. I mean, has anyone experienced this before? (I might be inclined to unlink all the images just to test my theory, but for the fact that many would have to be renamed. The client has given quite few of them the same file name, and since they are embedded and not linked, InDesign doesn’t seem bothered by this.)

    • March 26, 2018 at 10:46 am #102637
      Colleen Shannon
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      You may want to try either exporting it into a few PDFs (combine them after if needed) or saving it in pieces (pages 1-10, etc) and using the Book feature. File->New…Book.

      Also, there’s always a chance that the fonts are bad (free, cheap, stolen) so take a look at those too.

      Good luck—embedding is a nice feature in InDesign, but not meant for image-heavy projects like that.

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