Hangs and slowness in InDesign CS4 spell checking
3ABNPublishing Nov 26, 2008 12:53 PMCurious whether anyone else is experiencing this.... Had no problems with this under CS3 or earlier. A coworker has confirmed the same issue, and affects more than one, maybe all, publications.
When I turned on Dynamic Spelling while editing a CS4 document, I got hit with a beach ball. I didn't want to risk corrupting the document by force-quitting, so I just let it go. I think it took 15-30 minutes to spring back to normal. In the meantime, as with all beach ball moments, the application was totally unresponsive. Activity Monitor did not show any high CPU usage; in fact, it was very low, like 5% usage.
I had no more problems while working with the document after that. That is, until the last day, when I decided to actually check the spelling. I saw a flagged word, and when I right-clicked on it and chose "Ignore All," I got another application hang. I waited and waited, but with an imminent deadline, I decided to try logging out. During the log out process ID became responsive and asked me if I wanted to save, and I clicked yes.
After that, I had a similar hang when first opening the document. This occurred whether I turned Dynamic Spelling off or on. I finally turned it off, and decided to do a manual Check Spelling....
This went *extremely slow*. Each word took about 30 seconds on average, and I was just hitting "Ignore All" each time. It took me about 20 minutes or so to do 1/3 of the publication, before I gave up. This also happened when I tried it in another user account.
Later, I started the publication and went to lunch. When I came back, it had recovered from the hang, and I was able to finish my spell checking with Dynamic Spelling turned on.
I had a coworker verify if this affected his machine. His words:
> There certainly seems to be a problem. I opened the document that I sent you, which only contains my pages [about 8 of the 48 pages]. I switched it over to dynamic spelling and started spell check. I alternated between skipping words and using ignore all. As soon as I started using ignore all it really slowed down. A few times it would hang up for a minute or two. I finally got through the document in about 7 minutes or so.
> Then I shut the doc and opened it again, turned off dynamic spellcheck and tried it again. This time everything went perfect, no glitches.
> Next I opened the Oct issue which contained the full set of pages. This time I started spell check with out the dynamic spellcheck on. It did fine most of the way using both skip and ignore all. One time it hung up for about 4 minutes after hitting ignore all. I was able to make it through the document ok.
> Tried it the second time with dynamic spellcheck on and it hung up right away after hitting ignore all. Its been about 6 minutes and its still spinning. [Eventually he decided to force-quit it.]
I would really like to get to the bottom of this. I've already filed a bug report with Adobe. But I'm assuming this doesn't affect everyone, because I can hardly imagine such a serious bug would slip through to production. But if anyone else can confirm this or provide troubleshooting tips, I'd appreciate it.
When I turned on Dynamic Spelling while editing a CS4 document, I got hit with a beach ball. I didn't want to risk corrupting the document by force-quitting, so I just let it go. I think it took 15-30 minutes to spring back to normal. In the meantime, as with all beach ball moments, the application was totally unresponsive. Activity Monitor did not show any high CPU usage; in fact, it was very low, like 5% usage.
I had no more problems while working with the document after that. That is, until the last day, when I decided to actually check the spelling. I saw a flagged word, and when I right-clicked on it and chose "Ignore All," I got another application hang. I waited and waited, but with an imminent deadline, I decided to try logging out. During the log out process ID became responsive and asked me if I wanted to save, and I clicked yes.
After that, I had a similar hang when first opening the document. This occurred whether I turned Dynamic Spelling off or on. I finally turned it off, and decided to do a manual Check Spelling....
This went *extremely slow*. Each word took about 30 seconds on average, and I was just hitting "Ignore All" each time. It took me about 20 minutes or so to do 1/3 of the publication, before I gave up. This also happened when I tried it in another user account.
Later, I started the publication and went to lunch. When I came back, it had recovered from the hang, and I was able to finish my spell checking with Dynamic Spelling turned on.
I had a coworker verify if this affected his machine. His words:
> There certainly seems to be a problem. I opened the document that I sent you, which only contains my pages [about 8 of the 48 pages]. I switched it over to dynamic spelling and started spell check. I alternated between skipping words and using ignore all. As soon as I started using ignore all it really slowed down. A few times it would hang up for a minute or two. I finally got through the document in about 7 minutes or so.
> Then I shut the doc and opened it again, turned off dynamic spellcheck and tried it again. This time everything went perfect, no glitches.
> Next I opened the Oct issue which contained the full set of pages. This time I started spell check with out the dynamic spellcheck on. It did fine most of the way using both skip and ignore all. One time it hung up for about 4 minutes after hitting ignore all. I was able to make it through the document ok.
> Tried it the second time with dynamic spellcheck on and it hung up right away after hitting ignore all. Its been about 6 minutes and its still spinning. [Eventually he decided to force-quit it.]
I would really like to get to the bottom of this. I've already filed a bug report with Adobe. But I'm assuming this doesn't affect everyone, because I can hardly imagine such a serious bug would slip through to production. But if anyone else can confirm this or provide troubleshooting tips, I'd appreciate it.




