Initially there was concern that turning GREP styles off would limit the control of “ runt lines”. Preflight was not a concern with this particular file given that it was black text within one rather long text-frame and the spelling was to remain as the client provided the artwork. Some of the features of InDesign were not necessary for this task as the project was completely black text supplied by the client, so having a lower quality display performance without seeing the page previews was not an issue. Within the preferences, there is no ability to control the amount of RAM reserved for InDesign to use, nor is there the ability to control how often InDesign autosaves to its backup… something that is possibly slowing InDesign down even further. The slowdown was to the stage where using a word processor to accomplish the same task was considered! While this made the file workable, it was at the expense of the good features of InDesign. Do not use index entries or cross references

Do not use GREP styles or Nested stylesħ. Pages panel – turn off the preview for the actual pages:Ħ.

Display performance – to these settings :Ģ. Little things such as placing the text cursor between words resulted in a spinning beachball of death for five minutes before the cursor once again became a text cursor.ĭisabling several features in InDesign made the file somewhat workable:ġ. Put simply, the larger the file became, the harder it was to work on. There are already several articles concerning “slowdowns” while working with InDesign, namely: After a recent post discussing the complications of indexing a rather large InDesign file (1600+pp), it is worth mentioning another issue encountered with the project, namely the reduced speed of InDesign.

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