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1. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
BobLevine Sep 15, 2010 12:07 PM (in response to Windytech-iAUKfq)The best advice I can give you is to contact Adobe. While there are several people reporting these types of issues, it's not widespread and the more information Adobe gets from its customers the better the chance of finding out what the affected systems have in common.
I'm sorry, but I have nothing better to offer.
Bob
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2. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
Eugene Tyson Sep 15, 2010 1:00 PM (in response to Windytech-iAUKfq)Running InDesign CS5 on Windows XP with 2gb RAM and a 2.13ghz dual core processor.
Only experience slowness rarely - when sometimes using the Span/Split column feature, or a lot information on the page using Overprint preview.
I've one double page spread with a gradient in the background spanning spread (created in InDesign) that is a bit slow. But nothing unworkable.
I've done enough jobs in CS5 now to realise there is no consistency when InDesign CS5 slows down. But it really hasn't slowed down enough for me to be too concerned.
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3. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
MS-MacTech Sep 17, 2010 9:31 AM (in response to Windytech-iAUKfq)Hi, Windytech! We had a similar problem with our CS5 install. We did two specific things that immediately sped up INDD. Hopefully one or both of these will help you out.
First, in the PREFERENCES panel, go to INTERFACE and set Live Screen Drawing to DELAYED.
While still in the PREFERENCES panel, go to DISPLAY PERFORMANCE and set Default View to TYPICAL or FAST.
Second, go to WINDOW > OUTPUT > PREFLIGHT to open the PREFLIGHT panel. Click the triangle in the top right corner of the panel and uncheck ENABLE PREFLIGHT FOR ALL DOCUMENTS.
These sped up InDesign considerably.
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4. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
Jeremy bowmangraphics Sep 17, 2010 10:37 AM (in response to Eugene Tyson)Hi Eugene,
Only experience slowness rarely - when sometimes using the Span/Split column feature
I'm not sure what you mean by the Span/Split column feature -- would you mind saying a bit more?
A week ago I had the experience of CS5 wading through treacle (as my blood pressure waded through the roof) and I'm not sure how it started, nor how it ended (although thankfully it did end). Changing the display performance made surprisingly little difference -- still treacle even with grey rectangles everywhere.
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5. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
Eugene Tyson Sep 17, 2010 10:57 AM (in response to Jeremy bowmangraphics)Start a document with 2 column text frame.
Insert some text
Make a heading and give it a style
Then in the style settings go to the Span Split columns and choose Span 2 columns
Now make a whole document using this feature regularly with lots of graphics and stuff.
InDesign, for me goes to a crawl. In so much that I had to remove the span columns and revert to the anchored text frame across columns instead.
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6. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
BobLevine Sep 17, 2010 11:07 AM (in response to Eugene Tyson)Another thing to try is to disable thumbnails in the pages panel.
Bob
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7. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
Jeremy bowmangraphics Sep 17, 2010 11:19 AM (in response to BobLevine)I bow to your greater experience, but my (completely untrained) instinct is that there's something going wrong with columns, somewhere.
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8. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
Eugene Tyson Sep 17, 2010 11:25 AM (in response to BobLevine)I acutally like having that on - but I guess there have to be sacrafices with such a machine.
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9. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
Andy Eline Dec 14, 2010 9:24 AM (in response to MS-MacTech)Thanks for the tips MS-MacTech. These really did the trick. One of the designers here was ready to throw in the towel and revert back to using InDesign CS4 rather than fight the slowness (on a brand spanking new machine, no less). Saved the day!
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10. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
MS-MacTech Dec 14, 2010 11:14 AM (in response to Andy Eline)My pleasure, Andy. I am glad that it helped out!
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11. Re: InDesign CS5 Ridiculously Slow
RDP Dec 15, 2010 4:45 PM (in response to Windytech-iAUKfq)I have posted before about this subject and have been through hoops trying to fix this problem and nothing seems to work. I have upgraded my 2 6 month old Mac Pro's to 12 gig ram, installed ATI Radeon 5870 cards to little or no effect. What I have done is identified the problem, or so I think but others can try this out. I started with a new doc and placed a couple of images. As I moved the images around the bezier handles re-appered instantly, as they should. I then placed more images and all was ok. Then I made drop shadows which slowed the whole thing down. The bezier handles were so slow coming back that if I moved the mouse to the next image it dragged that image with it. I deleted the drop shadows which improved things only slightly. The point of this is that I believe ID has problems with transparencies which only Adobe can fix but until they get out of denial nothing will happen.




