Skip to main content
J
jumpyone
Known Participant
June 4, 2012
Question

Paragraph & Character Styles SO SLOW!

  • June 4, 2012
  • 16 replies
  • 26637 views

When I first heard that Adobe was going to put in paragraph and character styles in CS6 I thought, "Finally! Awesome!"

But, now that I have it and am using it I can't believe they have failed so hard in it. Every time I make a change in the style panel this little spinning dot wheel comes up and spins for at least a minute while think about making the change I made. This performance is unacceptable and needs to be addressed immediately. It even spins when I try to turn off the Preview checkbox.

I am using a Mac running 10.6.x and 8GB of memory. I have a lot of fonts installed, but that should NOT be an issue. It isn't with any other application.

Is there a way to speed things up?

    This topic has been closed for replies.

    16 replies

    Show previous replies
    K
    Kyle ★
    Participating Frequently
    July 9, 2012

    Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I do designs in photoshop and illustrator using the paragraph styles, it works just fine in illustrator but when I want to do the same in photoshop I can't make them nearly as fast or edit them as fast. A fix for this would be really nice I am going through the steps on the page Chris Cox left us but I'm pretty sure it's not going to fix this problem for me.

    Either way hopefully something will happen witht his soon enough.

    Chris Cox
    Chris Cox
    Legend
    July 9, 2012

    If you've gone through all those steps and it remains slow - then we'll need to get more information to figure out what is happening on your system.

    So far the type/paragrap/character style slowdowns have been tracable to bad fonts or corrupt OS font caches.

    J
    jumpyoneAuthor
    Known Participant
    July 9, 2012

    Chris,

    Why would this behavior happen in Photoshop, but not in Illustrator, InDesign or Fireworks? Do they not use the same type engine?

    Corrupt fonts should be buggy in all software, not just select apps.

    I have Mac OS X 10.6.8 with 8GB memory. I am using Linotype FontExplorer X, but I have tried disabling this as well and jsut using FontBook (yuck!).

    Also, FontExplorer X tells me what fonts are corrupt. There are other performance issues as well. For example, when thumbnail previews are turned on in the layers panel, Photoshop will"sit and spin" for several seconds when nudging layers because it is apparently redrawing the thumbnails constantly. It never did this pre-CS6.

    I have to say I am disappointed and if these issues are not fixed I am probably going to cancel my supscription to Creative Cloud and go back to CS5. Right now the features that do work are not worth a monthly fee while we "hope" that they get fixed.

    PS. I seriously wish Adobe would re-release ATM Deluxe for Mac OS X. Leave it just as it was for OS 9, just make it work in OS X. I bet everyone that uses a Mac for design would buy it.

    A
    Anonymous
    July 2, 2012

    Painfully slow for me too. Turned off all but system fonts, cleared cache. Still slow.

    A
    Anonymous
    June 26, 2012

    jumpyone wrote:

    I have a lot of fonts installed, but that should NOT be an issue. It isn't with any other application.

    Is there a way to speed things up?

    By "a lot of fonts", how many?  If more than a couple of hundred you might want to consider a font manager.  Too many fonts will slow things down I read.

    rezun8
    rezun8
    Inspiring
    June 27, 2012

    I have a font manager and also have close to a hundred fonts on my machine. My MBPro is as up to date as I can get it but still PS CS6 is so slow in responding to Type commands & Layer switch on/offs as well as other basic day to day commands that I have resorted to using CS5 again.

    I don't see why CS6 should be so slow when the same process in CS5 takes half the time. Nothing has changed on my end - bar the CS6 update & Install.

    Can't wait for an update to address this

    Chris Cox
    Chris Cox
    Legend
    June 27, 2012

    Most likely you still have a corrupt font, OS font cache, or a problem with the font manager.

    CS6 fixed a lot of issues with fonts, but we still find corrupt fonts that cause problems, and OS font caches constantly cause problems (especially on MacOS).

    You might want to try the steps in this article:  http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-photoshop-cs5.html

    E
    ekaras-08
    Participant
    June 26, 2012

    I have the same issue on my Mac Pro which is much powerful machine than my Macbook Air. And surprisingly Air has no lag at all. Anyone found any workaround or help?

    F
    FocusCreative22
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2012

    Same story here. I love the feature in InDesign and was excited to see it ported to Photoshop as a timesaver for web mockups and other non-text-heavy projects. However it is NOT saving me ANY time. I am not sure but it seems the more places you have the style applied, the longer it takes.

    I have a great machine running OSX 10.7.4 on a 1gb Radeon graphics card, 4ghz (8-virtual cores) CPU, and 12gb of RAM. I've got Photoshop working onto a separate scratch disc. This is very disappointing.

    I guess I'll stop using it until they fix it.

    Of course I am just running the trial version but it's supposed to run the same way isn't it?

    R
    Roman Holba
    Participating Frequently
    June 18, 2012

    I have the same problem. Win7 64bit.

    Tested on the report:

    i7, 8GB RAM, SSD 120GB, Nvidia GT 230 (desktop PC)

    i5, 8GB RAM, SSD 120GB, AMD Radeon HD6490M (notebook)

    It seems that the increase of 4 gigabytes of RAM to 8GB with a slightly accelerated, but it still takes a long time. The more styles or layers, it is slower. Indeed, it takes too long. It should come out some updates.

    Translated in Google transtalor

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices