InDesign getting slow due to more number of images

Hi Suresh,

Sorry to hear about your experience. I'd request you to try the suggestions shared on this community post in order to improve the performance of the app.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh

I definitely agree it's the load of EPS images - too many vectors. 

And it probably is best to keep the images that are EPS as hi-res bitmaps.

So that workflow would be favourable in my opinion.

However,

You could batch convert all the EPS files to low res images.

As long as they are the same name - you can relink to a different extension

https://creativepro.com/relink-from-one-image-file-type-to-another/

So if you have a folder of images containing the low res.

And then when you need to export to hi-res - you can relink to the EPS files. 

OR

Break the link to the links folder by renaming it - so all images are 'missing'.

Then rename the folder when exporting.

But both of my ideas have problems are a lot of file relinking could take time.

On that basis - I can't really see any other option except for replacing the EPS images for hi-res bitmap versions.

Hi,

I'd try (always in a copy of the work and links, please) to convert all the eps into lineart bitmaps (photoshop bitmaps, no screen, 50% threshold, 800 ppp (yes, this is not a typo) at 100% final size ). You can do that with a batch action i n Photoshop pretty easily. Then you can relink those images ("same name, different extension")

The purpose of  this is trying to reduce the load of vectors. 800 ppp solid ink bitmaps (no screen), should print all right (always "effective pixels").

It might help and it does not take too much time or effort to try it.

Best regards

Gustavo