InDesign + OS X Mavericks = Slooow?

[therealrgbk]

Since updating, I don't know what is going on, but I'm experiencing awfully slow performance from InDesign.

I have a MBP Retina 15 Inch 2.3Ghz, 16Gb Ram. Put it this way, I've never, ever experienced that slow feeling on this thing. Never. And suddenly after installing Mavericks, I'm experiencing that slow motion feeling.

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting this?

[Steve Werner]

I'm guessing it's the Extensis plugin that's the problem.

[Christine Holzmann]

One of the users had commented there that "Suitcase 5 is working fine in Mavericks and Adobe CC suite. It is having a problem with the new version of pages v5 just released as the activation of fonts is not working properly. The same is Happening for other font managers. For Adobe stuff it works fine."

[therealrgbk]

I havent had any issue with Suitcase 5 btw. I mean at least not visibly. It could be that suitcase is causing the ID issue. Later on I’ll test and report back. Cheers.

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[BDinkar]

People who are using Suicase fusion 5 on Mavericks or other Font management software like Font Explorer, Please try uninstalling it. I have spoken to few users and InDesign CC performance for them improved after uninstalling SF 5. Since many users are facing the slowdown, it is definately a concern and we want to narrow it down.

Please let us know if this has resolved/Improved performance.

Thanks,

Dinkar

[Hoops]

We have 2 banks of macs within the studio all running Marerick and indesign CC. One set has Suitcase 5 and the other Suitcase 3, both are running extremely slow so I cant see how the issue is with SF5.

[sharp_worldB82B]

nope, it's not suitcase (though the possibility was high after the problems i've had with it when i installed id cs6 an also cs5.5). i now uninstalled it, but the problems still exist. also, id cs6 is running fine – with or without suitcase installed.

[metapur]

its Adobe Drive thats slows it down.

Thats it. We had the same problem...

[Hoops]

Quitting the adobe cloud app has help me, it feel alittle snappier.

[MMI]

I experienced this issue. Uninstalling FontExplorer 4 plugin seems to have solved it.

I did a clean install of Mavericks on my system, and haven't even restored my font backup file yet, so the issue was occuring with a fresh DL of FontExplorer.

I don't have Adobe Drive installed.

[JasonMCG]

I've uninstalled both Font Suitcase and removed the Font Explorer X plug-ins...InDesign is still pretty slow. Don't have Drive installed.

[SMonsen]

I tried uninstalling Font Explorer and it didn't help. I don't have Adobe Drive installed. Clearing the prefs only helps for about 5 minutes, then it's back to slow. I work on large 200 page documents.

[JasonMCG]

Honestly the only thing that I've found that actually "helps" is tabbing the control palettes on and off. It's a pain though, and not much of a fix.

[SMonsen]

I tried that, and you're right. Turning of fthe palettes cures the problem. Unfortunately that doesn't work because I use most of them for editing text.

[SMonsen]

Try this. I had Adobe Kuler palette open. I just closed only Kuler and it's much more responsive. I will work this way for a while and see if that does it. I will report back shortly.

[SMonsen]

Never mind, that didn't work. There has got to be some issue with having all the palettes open on a second monitor that makes ID extremely slow.

[MMI]

Thought i'd chime back in, I've been testing installing and uninstalling FontExplorer plugin.

Im on an old iMac (24" early 2009 8gb ram) with an old apple 20" DVI cinema display. Not as up to date as the rest.

After about 10 mins with plugin installed, most things get sluggish. Watching activity monitor i was seeing CPU usage for indesign spike to between 70 and 95% when actively working. Tabbing palettes off curbed this.

WIthough plugin installed the spikes are between 50% and 75%. Tabbing palettes still speeds things up considerably but generally i'm not getting the extreme grind, like waiting a second to escape a text box or switch files.

[therealrgbk]

Do you mean the plugin or the entire font app? If it's the latter, that's a big ask.

[therealrgbk]

One other thing about my setup, maybe it helps cos others in this thread have the same thing, I use two screens, a thunderbolt and a retina MBP, i have many pallettes open on the retina screen.

**Again**, this was never an issue before the update anyway, so if some say having all these open is a cpu killer, it was never causing an issue before. Plus i have it like this for photoshop too and that app has no slowdowns since the upgrade.

Cheers

[m_luongo]

I trashed my prefs and now it works just as good as before I installed Maverick.

[vickyvaughn]

I was having the same issue and I have a brand new iMac, only weeks old. I found out about Suitcase not working because it isn't on my laptop, but it worked on my new iMac. Once I read this post though, I turned auto activation off of Suitcase and now InDesign is running fast again.

Extensis really should have emailed everyone who owns Suitcase and let us know early on not to upgrade!

[sharp_worldB82B]

i'm having the same troubles: indd is very slow since i updated to OS X Mavericks. In addition, hitting the escape-key when having set the cursor in some text wouldn't change the text-tool into the black arrow (though it still selects the container). i was able to fix that for a short moment by saving a new shortcut-set, which also helped the speed performance. but after a few minutes the application fell back into bad habits and the trick wouldn't help anymore. ideas?

[therealrgbk]

I have the exact same issue as Simaesmsum... The app is so slow that you hit escape and think you'd have the black arrow instantly, like *normal*, but alas it's still in the text box. Listenign to everyone on this thread, i think this is really an issue, not a coincidence. Liek i said at the start, my machine is lightning fast, I've been bragging how painless my experience has been, even a year on from getting this machine. InDesign was no exception. Soon as Mavericks was installed, game over for InDesign.

I also have the same issue as Ciellana, i trash my prefs, it's a little faster, then after an hour it's dead slow again.

Btw, the setup i have is a thunderbolt display and a retina MBP display which is full of panels i use, ready to use and open. AGAIN, this was **fine** before Mavericks. So I don't think i should be penalised for having panels open if it was never a problem before.

[therealrgbk]

Check out this thread and search for InDesign - Consistent feedback on this it seems...

http://blogs.adobe.com/vikrant/2013/10/creative-cloud-creative-suite-6-and-mavericks-10-9/

Aargh wish I never updated.

Anyone know how to revert back to an older system without havign to reinstall?

InDesign, please let us know your thoughts. It concerns me that you say

We are aware of some of the performance issues and are working on it but nothing specific to Mavericks.

[BobLevine]

Nothing specific to Mavericks should be taken as good news. It means

there's nothing new about Mavericks causing the issues.

You can still use CS6. Log into creative.adobe.com and click on download

center. Find InDesign and click on it. Find the "in this version"

section and click the dropdown. Choose CS6. From there you can download

and install it.

I know that's not ideal but at least you'll have a way to work a bit

more quickly until this gets sorted.

[therealrgbk]

Bob, I don't agree. It has to do with Mavericks, a lot of people here and elsewhere are saying it's since Mavericks has been installed. So I'm concerend that the InDesign crew are not paying attention to that.