P: Low Performance when there are a lot of artboards

Sorry, was no accuse 🙂 Just wanted to bring an example for Adobe...

I agree with you. I am not advocating anyone.

I asked people if they use character styles and paragraph styles. Three of them tried it but nobody does use it during normal work because it is lagy and it does strange things.

Jaroslav, that might be true, but imagine what InDesign users would say, when Paragraph styles would become so slow if they had 200+ objects in their document 😄 Really, if PS is targeting App or Interaction Designers (as me for example), it should behave like a professional tool for that purpose!

Hello Chris and thanks for your quick reply!

I just sent you an email with an example file as you suggested. It's a file for my working process when designing an app. I work a lot with my wacom to Sketch Things fastly in Photoshop, such as Icons or graphics. And I use a lot of artboards to Experiment with different ideas or Looks. So the file might become pretty large.

I used to work with Fireworks before, where it was common for me to have 30+ pages and Fireworks always worked like a charm and never had performance issues. So I hope I can fix this with PS too...

Paragraphs are really helpful - but as you will see, every Change renders for a few seconds which is not great in a workflow. Imagine what Indesign Users would say when applying a paragparh style would perform like that ;-).

Concerning turning off Generator: Seems to make it a Little bit faster, but not as I would like to have it... Also turning off the rulers helped a Little bit.

Two days ago there was a new release of Nvidia Drivers, which seem to make PS faster and more responsive in my opinion.

Another question: what about the Cache Settings of PS? Can I tune them? Today I have 8 cache steps and 1024 KB size. Is there a better Setting for my files?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Applying paragraph styles... I have always observe to be slow. I think... it occurs if you have 200+ layers

First thing to try: turn off Generator in Photoshop's preferences  (top of the plug-ins section).

If that doesn't help, then zip the file and email it to ccox (at) adobe (dot) com and I'll take a look to see where it is slowing down.