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dzgnr89
Inspiring
July 13, 2017
Question

Is my Indesign slow?

  • July 13, 2017
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For the first time in my life I am working on a 570 page long document. The .indd file I am working on is 97mb in size. All the text is black in colour and there are no shapes or graphics made in this file. It has 28 different master pages. 10 paragraph styles and consists of lots of externally linked images in jpeg and png format of filesize at the max of 3 mb. Most images are below 1mb in file size. These are the only non text item in my document.

I am working on my PC which is not connected to any network or something like that. All the linked images are placed in my hard drive.

When I add pages in the file, indesign hangs for 3-4 seconds and then adds pages.

There are no complex graphics in the indd file. But it takes sometimes 30 seconds to open up.

I wanted to confirm is this a normal behaviour of InDesign? I am using cc 2017 version and windows 10 -64 bit.

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    amaarora
    Inspiring
    July 13, 2017

    Hi,

    This is most likely a performance issue with InDesign. Obviously this is not a desired behaviour.

    How fast InDesign works depends on the ram available, system specs, currently running programs and the preferences you have set.

    As a start you can try if deleting cache and prerences resolve your issue.

    -Aman

    dzgnr89
    dzgnr89Author
    Inspiring
    July 13, 2017

    amaarora  wrote

    Hi,

    This is most likely a performance issue with InDesign. Obviously this is not a desired behaviour.

    How fast InDesign works depends on the ram available, system specs, currently running programs and the preferences you have set.

    As a start you can try if deleting cache and prerences resolve your issue.

    -Aman

    My RAM is 8 GB DDR3 and I have NVIDIA gt730 2gb graphics card, and my processor is i3 2100@ 3.10 GHz. The currently running programs while using InDesign are Photoshop and Illustrator in minimized position but without any files open.

    I know how to reset preferences of indesign. What is the procedure to delete cache?

    Bill Silbert
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 13, 2017

    Follow the path Follow the path to C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version [#]\en_US\Cache.