I'd like to add my experience. I am a long time Adobe InDesign CS6 user. I just installed InDesign CC and it feels bit sluggish to me too.
When I double click on a word (for example) it takes a half beat to hightlight the word. (vs CS6 which is instant).
It also feels like slightly slower when typing in words (split second shorter for a letter to show up on screen after I punch a key). Again, popping back to CS6 and things feel zippier.
I am running Mac OS X version 10.6.8 on a Mac Book Pro 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GC 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
That's the issue I'm having, as well (posted in another thread, sorry). Selecting text is, like you say, a half beat behind. Hit Command-Shift ten times quickly to highlight a range and you can sit back and watch it catch up. Not so in CS6 -- Jon.
I think I might have a clue; the system requirements (or at least recommended) for CC are for OSX 10.7 or greater. I think CC needs Lion or Mountain Lion to function at its best. Worth checking out. Hope this helps.
edit: However, I notice others having performance issues with 10.8.x... so maybe this isn't so important.
I'm running 10.8.4 on a brand new Retina MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM, 2.7 processor, 512 SSD. I'm also experiencing this slowness with CC. Things like dragging an image around the pasteboard or selecting or typing text are extremely slow and laggy. I am working while connected to an external display, so I don't think it has anything to do with a graphic slowdown related to the retina display.
I installed CC fresh, and did not copy over any settings or preferences from CS6. The only things I imported were my document presets and PDF export presets.
I will try uninstalling and reinstalling, but I highly doubt that will solve anything. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Update: I did upgrade to Mountain Lion, just to see if it would make a difference, but no! BTW, same laggy behaviour on three machines and two platforms -- Jon.
Is this only happening on notebook computers? I've looked through several threads, and most people complaining about this seem to be on MacBook Pros, both older and brand new models. I wonder if it has something to do with CC not properly throttling up the system or utilizing the cores? Maybe graphic drivers specific to the MacBook Pro line?
Same issues here. I'm using a MBP Retina 2.6 GHz and 8 GB RAM. I just bought this laptop and thought maybe it had something to do with the HiDPI rendering, but I see some people here are seeing lag on regular MBPs. It's not unusable, but moving from the super quick CS6 it feels like a real downgrade.
I'm running a MacPro with 2 x 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon with 16 GB ram and My InDesign CC is very sluggish as well. I am still using 10.6.8 but sounds like that isn't the issue. Anyone have a solution yet?
However, as Bob and others have said, I have generally found CC to be faster than CS6, not slower. So something is certainly going on. (I'm on a Macbook Air, 10.8.4)
Thanks David. I don't have Dynamic Spelling turned on, and I'm using all default preferences.
In regards to your linked article, I have 16 GB RAM, the issue occurs regardless of the display quality setting used (yes, it's just as bad with "fast" as "high-quality"!), preflight is off, no cross references, screen drawing is set to "delayed", and no font plug-ins installed.
Yes, David and Bob thank you for your tips. But I think there is more to it, too. The only thing in which InDesign CC is faster is to set up a new document and to quit. Please, all of you who experience those performance issues file a detailed bug report on the related Adobe site: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
I think the best thing we as users can do is giving as much information on the matter as possible to get this sorted out as soon as possible.
Hey, I think I figured something out! This lagginess seems to occur when opening a document created in CS6. If I create a new document and a text box, text selection is back to normal CS6-style speed. If I copy a text box from the laggy document into the new document, the text selection in that box is then fine. I don't yet know if it will bog down when the document builds, but I might try and recreate my project in this way, and I will report back. Might cross-post this in other thread -- Jon.
PS: The laggy document and the non-laggy document can be open at the same time!
That's interesting, Jon! So it might also help to open the old CS6 file, do a save as IDML, then open that IDML file in CC again... sometimes that cleans out old corruption and weirdness.
It is interesting! The problem seems to exist in the document, not the program. As to the IDML suggestion, I thought I had tried that, but couldn't remember so I tried it again and for sure the lagginess persisted. But copying and pasting boxes from the laggy documents into a new one works well! I am going to try and recreate my whole document this way and see if the problem arises, so I will report back ...
I can confirm this as well. Opening a CS6 document causes the slowdowns, but creating a new document, while I wouldn't call it perfect, is considerably more responsive. Exporting a CS6 document as IDML and opening in CC does not resolve the problem.
Eureka! The lagginess returns when a transparent object is on the page. Maybe there's a setting to tweak. UPDATE: problem (lag with transparent object on page) disappears when you turn transparency off in display performance preference. Behaviour identical on both Mac and Windows. Also, in Windows, text selection colour changes from dark blue to light blue when you change transparencey blend space from CMYK to sRGB! Thanks -- Jon.
Hi Rene, I watched your video when you first posted it. I just tried your action doing the exact same thing as you did in your video, both with info open and closed, and the result was super-speedy. Like, no delay at all! This is on my Windows machine, and I'm not at work (thankfully) to test the Macs there, but I will install on my MacBook Pro later on and do the same test. I'll post the result in a little while. That is a crazy delay you're getting! UPDATE: same speedy results on MacBook Pro, so not sure what you're up against. In fact, InDesign CC is pretty quick overall, as long as you have transparency turned off in the display performance preference (with any transparent objects on the page, that is). That's a pretty serious issue, but hopefully one which will be resolved soon -- Jon.
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