InDesign 2020 Slow Performance

Liam, because of your card, I suspect you have a "trashcan." Found this, which suggests your card may not be supported by Adobe anymore, while your Mac Pro's CPU is still powerful enough: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/mac-pro-2013-gpu-problems-amd-radeon-hd-firepro-d500/td-p/9882397?page=1

For what it's worth, as one of the people that's been touting the colorspace setting, I've found a similar but much better solution: simply switching from Apple RGB to Color LCD.

My monitor seems to have come with colorspace presets, or maybe Catalina recognized it. It's a Samesung U32J59x. 32" 4K connected with a fast DisplayPort cable to my 2010 Mac Pro. The lag was there from the start. What solved the lag for me and others was switching from the Display Profile selected by default (U32J59x—which was almost perfect out of the box) to Apple RGB, which was quite differernt and much darker overall. But I found that Color LCD was the exact same as the U32J589x, but with no lag.

So I now have the expected speeds and color correctness. 

Come on Adobe, we're all having this problem and it's been reported. We've done half the work for you. Fix the packaged fonts issue. 

After updating to 2020 on a Windows 7 machine, I was struggling with lag when more than one file was open. I only work with packaged pubs for organizational purposes. I called Adobe and talked to a rep (for a long time) and we tried a bunch of things. While troubleshooting, I unknowingly opened an unpackaged publication and was convinced that all of the things we had tried had fixed the problem. After figuring out that it was still broken, I uninstalled 2020 and went back to 2018 (I bet many PC users have gone back to previous versions). My employer upgraded my computer (it was due anyway) and I reinstalled 2020 on Windows 10. Same problem!  I asked another user with totally different hardware and settings and they had struggled with the problem before reverting back to 2018.

Adobe, you can duplicate this in your lab right this moment: using Windows OS and InDesign 2020, open more than one .indd file within packaged folders so that it uses the packaged fonts. Fix it please!

If you're working from a packaged folder try deleting the document fonts folder.

Worked for me after 1 month of lagging!

I've found two issues that will cosistantly cause slow InDesign Performance for me.

1. The first usually happens in files with lots of high-resolution pixel images and/or complex vector images. If your Display Performance is set to High Quality Display and everything slows down, change to Typical Display instead.
2. If you have a complex custom Preflight running in the background, and you get the spinning beachball of death, turn off Preflight (in the Preflight panel), to see if everything speads back up.

Just wanted to add my experience on this. I've had big lagging problems with inDesign since I started working on a rather big job around January 2020. The problem was the same on a mac and PC, both of wich has good specs, everything updated and so on, so the frustration has sometimes been, well, you know. I did see a tip a couple days ago that actually has helped a lot, and maybe this can be helpful to others as well. The 'trick' is to choose classic standard workspace(!). It was said to have something to do with linking and online services or something like that; I actually don't know, and it really does not matter either as lang as it works, right? 🙂 It is clearly, undoubtedly, a bug (a huge one) in inDesign for the moment, and we must only hope that they will find a way to solve this very strange and annoying behaviour very, very soon ... I've been using Adobe since version 1.0 of most of their softwares, and has always been a huge fan, but now they are testing me ... 

Hi all,
Its been a while since I last checked in on my initial post. I've never found a solution to this problem, but from what I can gather from some of the helpful comments below - it would make sense that the problem lies in the 4k monitor. Our IT guy came in and ran my machine off one of my colleague’s iMac displays and it worked perfectly. Its crazy that Adobe don’t have a solution to this.
Unfortunately turning my colour settings back to Apple RGB didn’t work, but I'm glad its working for some. Can I ask the people who are experiencing the same problems what monitor you're using? Mine is LG UltraFine Display
Cheers

Liam

Absolutely the same issue for me and I've posted about it in the past. Not the same hardware setup (48Gb RAM; Mac Pro 5,1; 12 core; RX 580 8Gb; m.2 SSD drive). 

I THINK it has to do with 4K monitors, because I can move the InDesign window to the 2K monitor above my 4K and InDesign is slick and fast.

Maybe try this:

Unistall InDesign, using the drop-down menu in the Creative Cloud app, and reinstall InDesign again. If that doesn't  solve the problem then unistall it once again and then run Adobe Cleaner before reinstalling InDesign again.

Here's a link to Cleaner: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about the trouble you are facing with InDesign. I would request if you can share a few more details like:

1. The exact version of the Operating System.
2. Is this happening on a specific file?
3. Was there an improvement in safe mode?
4. Where are the files saved, locally or on a network drive or shared drive?

Regards

Rishabh