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Crazy lag / slow / when doing anything with text

Mar 4, 2013 6:41 PM

CS6 on PC with 16 gig new ram and i7 and inDesign and Illustrator are both giving me lags. Especially on ID, when I try and use the type tool to select text it takes four to fifteen seconds for the top toolbar to turn over to text! WT*?

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  • Mag50Cal
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    1. Mag50Cal,
    Mar 5, 2013 4:42 AM   in reply to Illusiumd11
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    How many Fonts are currently installed on your PC? Are you using a Font management program? From InDesign preferences, set the Live Screen Drawing to "Never" which is inside the Interface panel. Turn the Preflight panel off by unchecking the On option within the Preflight panel. Within Preferences > File Handling panel uncheck the option "Always Save preview images with Documents". Disable Autocorrect if its on within the preferences. Within the Pages panel, go to Panel Options from the flyout menu and uncheck "Show Thumbnails". From the preferences > Display performance choose Fast display.

     

     

    HTH

     
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  • Peter Spier
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    2. Peter Spier,
    Mar 5, 2013 5:49 AM   in reply to Mag50Cal
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    The CS6 default seetting of Delayed for Live Screen Drawing should be fine, so there's really no need to cripple the functionality entirely. Live drawing would only become an issue if the user delays dragging an object to see the live preview, and I don't believe there would be any connection to switching the Control panel context.

     

    Disabling page thumbnails and switching to Fast display would, likewise, only be effective on an underpowered system. I suspect a font or font manager issue here.

     
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  • Illusiumd11
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    3. Illusiumd11,
    Mar 5, 2013 11:00 AM   in reply to Mag50Cal
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    How many Fonts are currently installed on your PC?

    Thanks for the replies. 

    Yes, quite a lot I think. I tried Extensis Suitcase for Windows but that didn't seem to help the problem. Is there a better font management system for Win?

     
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    4. Mag50Cal,
    Mar 5, 2013 11:06 AM   in reply to Illusiumd11
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    If there are a lot of fonts, say more than a thousand fonts, then I would recommend you to remove some fonts and only keep fonts that you frequently use in your development. Say about 300 - 400 fonts only should be good. Suitcase fusion updated to the latest version should cause no problems.

     
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