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SamLC
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June 1, 2020
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TRICK for Cross references! fast like a ferrari

  • June 1, 2020
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Slow, very slow, is... pufff. I tried to increase the speed, enable quick preview (low quality view) .. disable check for errors, .. but is very, very slow. Please! Does anyone have a trick to quickly join cross references?

 

And... sometimes any link... become to Red flag, why?... nothing changed, the same paragraph style in the same file.

 

Thank you for your help!!

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi Sam,

In case you do cross references to other InDesign documents:
Have all related documents always open, that would speed up InDesign.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 2, 2020

Hi Sam,

In case you do cross references to other InDesign documents:
Have all related documents always open, that would speed up InDesign.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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    SamLCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2020

    Hi Uwe! Ok, thanks for your advice!

    Derek Cross
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    Derek CrossCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 1, 2020

    You mention several issues -- you can increase the speed by temporarily disabling Preflight.

    You'd  probably be better off using Character Styles for a word or words (or alternatively an image) for links to hyperlinks.

    You can select URLs or Cross References in the hyperlink & cross references dialogue box.

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    SamLCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2020

    Derek, thanks for your advice.

    Yes, I disabled preflight but maybe I should better use anchor text that is more delimited instead of linking to a complicated paragraph style.


    Thanks for your help!

    Mike Witherell
    Community Expert
    Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 1, 2020

    What version of InDesign? What OS?

    Speed up InDesign

    Mike Witherell
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    SamLCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2020

    Mike, thanks so much for responding !!

    Answering your question, the version is the latest updated CC 2020 and I use MacOs (..i7, 40Gb ram)

    Thanks for sharing the link,

    I was surprised by the trainingonsite url with so many details. I had applied some but not all strategies.

    Sadly, as you indicate in the last strategy, the book has a lot of cross-references and many books with cross-references between them, so ... I'm going to apply the other strategies and... surely go faster.

    Thank you!!!!

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