InDesign and PDF comments: extremely slow

[danielfeary]

Lately I've been doing a lot of publications and importing PDF comments into InDesign. But approving each change is extremely slow. Between 10–15 seconds for each one. Anyone else suffering poor performace? Anything can be done to improve this?

InDesign v14.0.3

MacOS 10.14.5

[BobLevine]

What are the rest of your system specs? RAM? SSD? Processor?
Have you tried InDesign 2020?

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi Daniel, 

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

1. Does this happen on a specific file?
2. Where are the files saved, locally or on any network or shared drive?
3. Do you use any third-party plugin?
4. Have you tried updating to the latest version which is InDesign 2020?

Regards

Rishabh

[danielfeary]

Just timed it: average time to accept a single word text change from PDF Comments tool is 23 seconds. As I have 430 text changes to make, almost three hours to accept these changes. It's a great tool but it's just not practical to use it currently.

1. This happens on several files in the last week.

2. The files are locally saved to the internal solid state drive

3. The only plug-in installed is APID ToolAssistant

4. Same issue with both 2019 and 2020 versions of InDesign

[BobLevine]

How much RAM do you have? What processor? Have you tried disabling the plugin?

[Mehmet5E06]

I'm sure you've never used this feature.

[Eliza5C49]

I am having the same issue and am working on a 530 page document. It's just too time consuming to work this way. I want to manually enter the edits but can't figure out how to remove the PDF comments from the document. Even without using the feature the document is dragging. Any thoughts?

[danielfeary]

@Eliza5C49 My tips would be remove any GREP styles in your paragraph styles. They seem to be the biggest factor towards the slow crawl of PDF changes. If you want to delete PDF comments, go to the PDF comments panel, click on the hamburger preferences icon, click "Delete All Comments". 

[Richard Groff]

I'm having problems with PDF Comments as well. I'm using CC19 on a 464-page book (my client needs it to stay in CC19, so I can't use 20 or 21 which, I hope, have better versions of this feature). After each "Accept" I have to wait about 10 seconds for the change to be made. The PDF Comments window occasionally freezes, so I have to close it, reopen it, and scroll back down to where I left off. Then at times the window starts scrolling down on its own and I can't stop it. Have to close the window and reopen it again. Pretty frustrating!

[Mehmet5E06]

Literally using this feature is a disaster.

[Richard Groff]

I gave up on using PDF Comments altogether. It's much faster to just have Acrobat open on one side of the screen and InDesign on the other.

[Mehmet5E06]

I wonder if the indesign team made an improvement for this?

[david najbrt]

No:(

[meyrele]

When will we have improvements to this feature. For God's sake, that would have to be a priority. He's amazing, but he's extremely slow with some markings.

[meyrele]

Look how long it takes! The video is longer than 8 minutes. And in each new version, this is slower. Text exchange markings are fast and effective, but markings with a geometric figure line take time and leave the computer locked, both on PC or MAC, new and old. Please this is very useful, but the way it is is making this feature unfeasible.