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alexanderklar
alexanderklar
Inspiring
March 3, 2017
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Very slow resizing and arranging of objects

  • March 3, 2017
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Hi fellow InDesign users,

I am experiencing a very slow performance of InDesign – but only when resizing or arranging objects (via the arrange palette). Everything else works fine as far as I can tell.

To illustrate what I mean, here is a real-time video of resizing a group of objects to 90% of its original size:

I call it the Resize Dance, which was funny at first, but after experiencing it a while, it really gets annoying.

Searching for this issue in this forum I only found a similar sounding problem here, but none of the suggestions worked. I have tried the following:

– Deleting preferences (and cached preferences)

– Relaunching the CCLibrary process as described here

– Ensured that your firewall is not blocking Creative Cloud–associated processes

– Ensured that your hosts file is properly set up

I am using the following:

– InDesign 12.0.0.81

– Mac OS X 10.11.6

– MacBook Pro (15 inch, mid-2010)

I would be really glad about any kind of help!

Thank you and best regards

Alexander

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Correct answer alexanderklar

So, here is what I just found out: it's the palette "information" („Informationen“ in my German version) that is slowing down InDesign. As soon as I close that palette everything works smoothly again. Very weird.

2 replies

Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 4, 2017

What does happen if you turn of the Profile prefliegt during work?

    alexanderklar
    alexanderklarAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 6, 2017

    Hi Willi, thank you for your idea as well. I just tried it and it didn't change anything either. The grouped object still takes more than 2 minutes to resize to 90%. Very weird... but I found the solution and will make a post on it next.

    alexanderklar
    alexanderklarAuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    March 6, 2017

    So, here is what I just found out: it's the palette "information" („Informationen“ in my German version) that is slowing down InDesign. As soon as I close that palette everything works smoothly again. Very weird.

      Mike Witherell
      Community Expert
      Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 3, 2017

      What happens if you turn off Type Contextual Controls within Preferences > Advanced Type?

      Mike Witherell
      alexanderklar
      alexanderklarAuthor
      Inspiring
      March 6, 2017

      Hi Michael, thank you for your quick reply to my question! I couldn't check until now, but unfortunately that didn't do the trick. I found the solution, though, and will make a post on it next.

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