InDesign CC (14.0.2) slowdown with multiple master pages on macOS

[jlc3450]

Hoping someone can help me figure this out!  I'm getting a massive slowdown when I exceed 4-5 master pages in my doc. (Currently, I have/want to use 10 master pages for 64 pages of text; created as a parent and child masters.)

I've turned off live Preflight & Save Preview images, set display to Typical. There are no images or drawings or links in this doc. Nothing else is running, and I'm using a late 2014 iMac, 4ghz intel core i7, 32 GB memory, AMD Radeon r9 m295x 4GB graphics card.

Once I delete half my master pages, everything runs smoothly no matter how many pages of text I have in this doc!

Any ideas?

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[Mike Witherell]

Have you tried exporting to IDML and re-opening that IDML and saving as an INDD file?

Have you tried trashing preferences?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about the slow performance in InDesign documents with multiple master pages. In addition to the suggestions shared by Mike, you can also try moving the pages to a new document.

In case you need help, you can refer to these help articles:

• Reset Preferences: Set preferences in Adobe InDesign
• Move pages to new document: Manage pages and spreads in InDesign

Let us know if that helps or if you need any further assistance.

Regards,

Srishti

[todd_9012]

How would that help?

I had the same problem with a 206 page book.

I ended up going to one set of master pages which took care of the page numbers and odd page header. For even page headers I had to override all master items on those pages and put them in manually which wasn't too bad, it was a lot faster than trying to work with the machine bogged down to a standstill. Not ideal but I was hoping someone in here would have a proper explaination.