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1. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
Scott Falkner May 30, 2008 8:05 PM (in response to cgrscott)My largest is a little over 200. The longest single-document job I've done is 64 pages. Use a Book. -
2. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
cgrscott May 31, 2008 5:56 PM (in response to cgrscott)Thanks, Scott.
I'm going to refer to Chapter 10, "Pages And Books" in my copy of "InDesign CS2 for Macintosh & Windows Visual Quickstart Guide."
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3. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
sandeecohen Jun 1, 2008 7:58 AM (in response to cgrscott)Robert,
Post any questions you have about the chapter here.
I'll answer them as best I can. -
4. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
(Ariel_Walden) Jun 1, 2008 10:46 AM (in response to sandeecohen)I've done a 1000+pp journal on CS2 with no problems of crashing. All in a
single file. Text only, no graphics. But on a PC, not a Mac. My computer had
half your RAM and half your processor (!).
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5. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
sandeecohen Jun 2, 2008 4:36 AM (in response to cgrscott)Many years ago I had a rule that said no document should be larger than 100 pages or 100 MB, whichever comes first. Now although this was XP back in the 90's, it's still not a bad rule.
It allowed for files to grow with images or pages.
More than 100 pages, you just wouldn't want to risk losing.
More than 100 MB is too much to have to keep saving. -
6. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
cgrscott Jun 2, 2008 5:06 AM (in response to cgrscott)Thanks for the clarification about the need to keep the file size smaller. I read through Chapter 10, "Pages And Books" and was tempted to make the whole book just one big file.
But I decided to use the book feature to synchronize multiple documents, keeping the file sizes down. Now that I read the chapter though I'll use it as a guide as I layout the first chapter.
I used to just "wing-it" when I laid out books that were 25-100 pages but with a book this large I think I need to learn how to use as much auto-features as possible, using styles for headings, sub-headings, & paragraphs, working with page numbering controls and and setting things up to auto-create the table of contents. -
7. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
Mr. Met Jun 2, 2008 5:26 AM (in response to cgrscott)Working with individual files for each chapter and/or section is good workflow and provides project security. If you put everything into one file and the file becomes corrupt, you're screwed. Break it out into sections/chapters then all you lose is a chapter if that chapter burns and crashes. Even then, you can go to the previous days backup for that chapter and start editing again. You do back up daily and rename files each day, I hope. Backing up daily is even more important than breaking out the book into chapters. Whatever you do, do not open and resave the same file day after day.
As you correctly surmised, style sheets are a must as is data merge for running headers and footers. -
8. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
cgrscott Jun 2, 2008 6:05 AM (in response to cgrscott)Thanks for your interest.
I do Retrospect Network Backups, staggered to two different drives, every night. I've had no trouble with file corruption since I switched from OS 9 to OS X and from QuarkXpress to InDesign. I go against Apple's recomendations and partition my hard drive so that the OS and software run off of one partition. My job files are on a separate partition and OSX's virtual memory hits and Photoshop's scratch disk hits are on the boot partition.
After the customer reviews the first draft and his changes are applied, I re-save the layout document to a new file name, like "GPM_Insid_Pgs_REVa" and then "GPM_Insid_Pgs_REVb." -
9. Re: Can InDesign CS2 handle long document layout without crashing?
Mr. Met Jun 2, 2008 6:37 AM (in response to cgrscott)Good. I would still break up any large document into separate files.



