I have a book layout in which I needed to adjust top/bottom margin for a bit more balance. The book is completed, so it is too far along to siimply change the initial layout; this is a last-minute request from the client to shift everything up on the page. I went to the main master (upon which all the others in use are based) and opened Margins & Columns, intending to use "Adjust layout." First thing is, it took something like 30 seconds (!) before the check mark would even appear in the Adjust Layout checkbox. Then it took another 30 seconds, EACH, to change the margin measurements in the top, then bottom, margin fields. I have 16 gigs of RAM on my machine and few processes running, so I tend to think this is an InDesign time lag, but I've never run into such a very slow response. Yes, slow at times, but not like this. So, first question: Could this kind of thing be because the book is 200+ pages? That doesn't make sense to me -- I've worked with larger manuscripts (though don't recall if I've tried to use "Adjust Layout" in any of them). But even if the # of pages matters, why would InD start struggling even before I hit "OK"? I can't really even get to OK because just filling in the margin fields and trying to select the Adjust Layout box is taking such long, long minutes. (I first thought the program had frozen, and I chose to "end task" about three times before I figured out it was just delayed.) Second thing is, when I sit it out and actually get the margins changed -- NOT that I've selected OK yet, but I just get the margin numbers changed -- my header text boxes disappear (I have Preview turned on). The header text boxes are set to ignore text wrap (just as a precaution), and they are set to align to None, so they shouldn't be getting bumped in any way by the higher top margin or the "rising" text on the page. If anything, I'd expect them to overlap the page's main text box -- though, I actually did resize them so this wouldn't happen anyway, just for aesthetic purposes. These two things are driving me crazy. I will add that, in general, I've noticed a lot of "slowness" in InD recently. Has anyone else experienced any of this sort of thing, or even just general lack of response, since any recent updates? I'm running v. 14.0.3 x64 via Creative Cloud. Any thoughts, anyone? Thanks in advance.
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