Indesign stalls for a second when moving objects

[anabole]

When I move objects like text boxes or images, Indesign stalls for a second or two before completeing the task. This is really frustrating. Most of these task should be done in real time (like in quark)

Can someone help?

My set up is: G4, 1,25 GHz, 1,25 GB RAM, Indesign 3.0

 

[jimoblak]

Does this happen on all documents? Are you using a font manager? Do you let your computer run regular system maintenance overnight?

There is clearly something wrong with your installation and/or system as this is not normal behavior for any page layout app.

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[jmgalvin]

I have the exact same setup as you and have no problems.

There is one thing with OSX that can slow down your machine and cause some problems - font caches.

10.3 does not rely on the original font but on a cache of the original to avoid corruption of the original. Under OSX Adobe apps have their own caching system. One solution is to trash the Adobe font caches.

In Finder go to Find. In the Search box type "AdobeFnt" without the quotes. You chould get a result with things like "AdobeFnt.lst" and/or Adobe07Fnt.lst.

Make sure that all your Adobe apps are NOT running. You can then trash everything with the .lst file name extension. DO NOT trash anything that does not have the .lst file name extension. A restart of the machine is recommended after clearing a font cache.

There are other font caches within the various OSX folders. It's a good idea to clear these once in a while. It helps speed up performance and avoid corrupted caches. I once found 15,000 different caches on my machine. It's easiest to just download the shareware program Font Finagler to do this rather than searching all through your machine. You can find it via

http://www.versiontracker.com.

Font Finagler does not clear the special Adobe caches.

 

[texasjoe]

No stalls here -- but then, I'm using a PC.

Macs are so slow -- I switched to PCs years ago -- Who has time to wait around on a Mac?

Joe

 

[jmgalvin]

texasjoe: the trolling is not appreciated nor is it useful to readers

 

[tad1952]

Anabole
I'm not sure if this will help or not, but check View/Display Performance. Iif it is set to high quality display, change it to Typical. I set up files for murals/display units/billboards - anything large format - and if I have lots of high res photos, InDesign can start to bog down. So I leave my setting at Typical & if I need to see a photo or logo a little clearer, then I select it and then Object/View/Display Performance/High Quality Display and usually change it back to Typical when I'm done. This speads everything up considerably.

 

[texasjoe]

jmgalvin, I don't appreciate being called a troll. I'm just trying to help anabole solve the problem.

The fact remains that when I was a Mac user I had many problems similar to the one anabole described.

Switching to a more capable OS is something every graphics professional should be open minded to.