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• • September 30, 2011 at 7:03 am #60647
    Anonymous

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    Hello

    I have encountered very slow response when trying to produce a 45 page document which needs many .jpeg images inserting, sometimes up to six on each 3-column page. While InDesign behaves sort of normally on text only pages, it slows to a virtual standstill when on the pages with images. (But this is what its for and I didn't have this problem with CS2!!)

    Having read through some of the postings on this topic from last year I have followed the advice to:

    1) disable LSD in Preferences – Interface

    2) disable thumbnail display in Pages

    3) adjust view settings to Typical with Raster and Vector Images greyed out

    4) disable Save Preview Images with Documents

    5) check Links before opening documents

    7) switch Preflight off

    I am operating with the following:

    Packard Bell ixtreme M5740 64 bit

    Intel Core i5 CPU 650@3.2GHz

    4.0 GB RAM

    ATII Radeon HD5570 graphics card 2779 MB available memory, 1024MB dedicated

    plenty of free space – 274GB on c: drive and 296 GB on a D: drive

    This seems to conform to/exceed the Indesign recommended hardware spec?

    What's going on guys?

    I've lost a good 6-8 hours so far trying to sort it out, including a trawl through my computer's innards, running it through UniBlue SpeedmyPC etc. Any help and observations will be gratefully received.

  • October 4, 2011 at 3:42 am #60673
    Anonymous

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    Edit>preferences>interface

    Change “Live Screen Drawing” to “Delayed”

    See if that helps.

  • October 4, 2011 at 6:55 am #60678
    Anonymous

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    Hi Eugene

    Thanks for this advice but sadly it makes no difference

    Since my original post I have saved out the file in IDML opened it and then resaved with a huge reduction in file size (like 280MB to 68MB) but sadly no impact on my problem!

    I was already working on my local hard drive and have saved all my links (copy links to …..) there too.

    It feels like I have run out of storage space for 'undo' but can't set up an additional 'scratch file' as with Ps?

  • October 4, 2011 at 7:23 am #60679
    Anonymous

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    Windows Aero sometimes gives issues

    https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/k…..03039.html

  • October 4, 2011 at 8:21 am #60681
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I've just checked your suggestion and selected 'Windows Basic' instead of an Aero Theme. Regrettably this has had no discernible effect on my problem. :-(( Didn't know about the Aero issue so thanks for that – I'll look out for it elsewhere!

  • October 5, 2011 at 1:12 am #60686
    Anonymous

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    The only thing I'd suggest is check that all the dirvers are up to date for the graphics card

    Right Click on “My Computer” go to “Manage” select “Device Manager” select “Display Adapters” and expand the view by pressing the plus symbol. Right click on the items in the tree structure and choose “Update Driver” when prompted select “Install Software Automatically”

  • October 5, 2011 at 1:24 am #60687
    Anonymous

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    Hi Eugene

    I have just been through your suggested procedure and the end dialogue says the driver for the ATI Radeon 5570 card is' up to date'.

    I am thinking now that InDesign 5.5 has a bug here since we seem to have run out of adjustments to make? I may have to go back to using CS2! How best to get Adobe to look at this problem – I've posted on the Adobe Forum without reply yet. :-(

  • October 5, 2011 at 2:25 am #60688
    Anonymous

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    Is this happening with all documents or just this particular document?

    Say if you started a new document and imported those images again, does it happen there too?

  • October 6, 2011 at 7:16 am #60700
    Anonymous

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    I have tried this with other documents we have been working on with the same result. The offender is a new document into which I placed text and images. The only other thing I did was to import some master pages from a previous CS2 document and then use these in the new document.

    I do notice that pages without images give a 'normal' performance and that my issues seem to relate to double page spreads, one of which has 9 images of various file sizes totalling 20MB.

    Could this be an issue with 'Document Recovery Data'? I ask because I read that the recovery files can get quite large and it might be good to move them to a larger drive to free up disk space or improve performance. (My C: drive has 'only' 271GB free.)

  • October 11, 2011 at 4:51 am #60740
    Anonymous

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    Hello

    Well I've tried about everything I can think of so far: Document Recovery Data was a red herring. So I tried relinking every image afresh and only got as far as double page spread 46-47 out of 80 before InDesign's performance slowed almost to a standstill ie 15-20 seconds for it to respond to any command. :-(

    Has anybody any other ideas on how to overcome InDesign's reluctance to work properly for me??

  • October 11, 2011 at 6:13 am #60741
    Anonymous

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    Perhaps it's the images on page 46-47 causing the issue?

    Can you package the file and then move the links folder to another location (so that InDesign can't find the links)

    Try going to that page again, and then relink just those images.

    If it slows again it may just be those images. I would then open and resave those images to a different format and try relinking them again.

    You could also try inserting just those images into a brand new document spread and see if anything strange happens?

    If you would like to send me a sample file that it's happening on, with links, I could take a look.

  • December 26, 2013 at 12:16 pm #66504
    Brian Sheridan

    Member

    Hello there! I’m responding to this 2+ years later now. Hopefully a moderator will see this…
    I recently upgraded from CS3 to 5.5 and noticed that the typical display under Display performance actually shows images w/ less clarity/resolution on screen than CS3 did. As an added issue moving the images with the direct selection tool in the box is extremely slower and jerky compared to the performance of CS3. I found an artical about this by someone that is very good and concludes, as I did that CS5 is a “downgrade” for InDesign.
    I have accepted this, but am surprised I can’t find more info on why this has happened w/o Adobe providing a patch etc.
    Here’s the article: https://paulblow.tripod.com/indesign_cs3_vs_cs5.html
    Now the big question: Has Adobe addressed this AND IS IT FIXED BY CS6?

    Thanks for any response!
    BriDog

  • January 14, 2014 at 5:22 am #66647
    Niels JÌürgen Pedersen

    Member

    There is a very simple way of getting ID to work faster …

    How is your pictures made? Are they all in 72 dpi?

    InDesign places only the image-prewiev in InDesign. That is a 72 dpi copy of the file. BUT: If The image is saves in 72 dpi, the preview is the same size as the image itselves….

    Therefor: Be sure, that all your images are saved in 300 dpi. Then InDesign only places a much smaller image in the document.

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