![]() ![]() ![]() One place I notice a lag in redraw is those pesky little page thumbnails. If you have a lot of pages in your document, and those pages have a lot of items on them, your Pages panel thumbnails are working really hard to keep up with you. Better yet, turn it off altogether by deselecting the On checkbox until you’re ready to preflight. Now the preflighting is only being conducted on that particular page. At the bottom of the panel, select the radio button to the right of All and choose a page (or alternate layout). To do that, either click the Preflight menu to the right of the red or green dot at the bottom of the document frame, or choose Window > Output > Preflight. You can limit which pages it’s checking by opening the Preflight panel. ![]() Live Preflight works in the background to make sure your document falls within the parameters you’ve set for the specific output. If this option is set to immediate, InDesign has to display every step of the process for every transformation. The delayed option means that when you click on an item, such as an image, then wait a split second to move or transform it, you’ll get a live preview of the transformation as you perform it. Turn off InDesign’s Live Screen Drawing-or at least set it to Delayed-in the Interface pane of your Preferences to speed things up a notch. Even with the default set to high, you can right-click or control-click on a document page to set the display performance for the current document, or right-/control-click on an image to change the setting for just that image. However, with the latest release (or maybe even earlier and I just didn’t notice it), the default seems to be High Quality. This has been InDesign’s default setting for viewing images onscreen for ages. Setting the default to Typical (InDesign/Edit > Preferences > Display Performance) renders the images at a screen-friendly resolution. Viewing images at high resolution forces InDesign to constantly re-draw elements as you move around the document, eating up processor oomph. Set InDesign’s Display Performance to Typical If you know your computer is normally up to handling your intense workflow, then maybe one-or three-of these issues and settings within InDesign is what’s bringing it to its knees. If you’ve done some troubleshooting and are quite certain it’s not a particular file-or an asset within that file-causing you grief, there are a few things you can try to speed up InDesign. ![]() Some people are quick to jump on the “trash your preferences” bandwagon, but I almost never have to resort to that. Even our ever-faithful companion, InDesign, is not free from frustrating slowdowns and inexplicable quirks. Select “Organize Pages” from the “Create & Edit” grouping.Sometimes, things just don’t run as smoothly or as quickly as we’d like. You’ll come to a page with lots of icons for editing functions. Open your massive PDF and then click “Tools” at the top of the open window. The Adobe Acrobat DC (2015) interface is wacky and a radical departure from everything else Adobe makes.* It’s closer to the current version of Microsoft Office than Creative Cloud. NOTE: I’m writing this tip about the current version of Acrobat that is included with Creative Cloud. I stumbled across a feature in Acrobat that lets you split a PDF into multiple files and allows you to set a maximum file size for each resulting file. Only email.) I needed to divide the PDF into several smaller PDFs. There are many ways to do this, but most require some trial and error. (Dropbox and other sharing services weren’t an option for this client. I had a large file with many pages that I needed to email. I don’t think I’ve ever posted a tip for Adobe Acrobat, but I found something this week that was amazingly helpful. My plan is continue the weekly Creative Cloud quick tip into 2016. You can see all the tips from the past several years on my Creative Cloud Quick Tip page. I’ve updated the post in 2014, but Google really loves the old post. A new feature in InDesign CC 2015 makes paragraph shading really easy.īut by far, the most visited page on my site is a tip from 2009 on how to create an Instagram-like vignette effect without leaving InDesign. The easiest way to combine pages from different documents. Moving InDesign pages to different documents. For some reason, the most helpful InDesign alignment options are hidden on the Alignment palette. That one weird little InDesign printing trick. I had no idea how easy it was to print a single spread in InDesign. Although I post tips from other Adobe apps, most of them - including my favorite four below - are for InDesign: I restarted my Wednesday Adobe Quick Tip a few months ago, but I figured I’d highlight my favorite tips from the last year to make you a more efficient Creative Cloud user. ![]()
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