Indesign 2018 link duplication crash

[michaelj99796153]

Since the update to Indesign 2018 one of the larger files I work on is becoming slow to work with (compared to previous Indesign versions), and often times crashes Indesign altogether.

The crashes occur when I move/copy any of the linked .indd files

Hardware is:

iMac 27" Late 2013 (OS X 10.11.6)

3.4ghz Intel core i5

16gb DDR3 RAM

Indesign version 13.0.1

Any ideas?

[Steve Werner]

Is this a link to a server, or to a locally stored file?

[michaelj99796153]

Locally stored Steve

[Steve Werner]

What kind of file are you linking to? If an image, re-save it in Photoshop.

[michaelj99796153]

It's an Indesign file so yes, I could save it as a pdf or jpg as a workaround. The reason I haven't is that having done this in the past, I've found it easier just to link the Indesign file so that any changes are instantly reflected in the main document.

It's only recently that Indesign has seemed to slow up during this process.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Try saving the ID files out as IDML, then open the IDML file and save-as back to INDD.

[michaelj99796153]

Tried, with no success. Forgot to mention that this only happens when the display performance is set to high. Again though, this wasn't the case before the update.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

It could be that your video card is a little under powered. That model iMac could have a 1, 2, or 4 GB GPU of varying power.

Try turning off or on the GPU acceleration preference and see if it helps.

[michaelj99796153]

You may be right, the GPU is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB

Oddly enough, GPU acceleration isn't supported for this model but is for illustrator CC

Any idea why that is?

[Steve Werner]

With most features, each Adobe engineering team makes its own decisions about what features to include and what the scope of those features are.

[michaelj99796153]

Shame they didn't support this particular GPU as working with linked photos in a magazine spread (in high quality) would have really helped. Ah well, back to 'Typical display' mode then I guess.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

In the preferences, I define my Typical display settings as high quality for vector graphics but leave raster as proxies. If I need a given raster image at high-res, I simply right click on it and turn it on just for that image.

I keep "Preserve Object-Level Display Settings" turned off so if I crash, it won't affect restart.

This would also help you track down a possible, borderline corrupt graphic. (If it crashes with vector graphics at high-res, leave them at proxy view too and turn them on as needed too.)

[michaelj99796153]

Thanks. Just tried that and then went to duplicate the same linked .indd, file that crashed the program last time, with exactly the same result. Just to rule out that particular file being the issue, I duplicated another .indd file on a separate spread but again it crashed.

Possibly a problem with linking .indd files?

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted solution]

>Possibly a problem with linking .indd files?

Theoretically, no. Technically, who knows...

I would go back to everything at proxy (the default Typical setting). Preserve display settings off.

Turn the graphics on high-res on a per-object level. You should eventually come across the problem file.

And be sure to save often.

[michaelj99796153]

The first .indd file i tried crashed, and the second...and then the third!

I guess I'll just keep using the typical display when using .indd links from now on.

[michaelj99796153]

Thinking about though, the GPU support shouldn't really matter. HQ display never crashed Indesign before when duplicating a file in my previous experience.