Accepting tracked Changes very SLOW

Question

In InCopy CS4 and now in CS5 we are having a serious production-limiting problem with it being slow to accept tracked changes. It doesn't matter whether you are accepting one change or all the ones in a document--it takes the same amount of time for that doc. A 50 page document takes 17 sec while a 18 page one takes 6 sec. This is crippling to our productivity. I don't see anybody else complaining about this so I guess I'm missing a check box that everybody else already knows about that will fix it all. Will somebody let me know what it is? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, that felt pretty patronizing.
Two questions:
1)       1) Are you saying that you are certain that InCopy is actually reflowing all text, etc. every time a tracked change is accepted?
2)       2) If you are certain of that, are you certain that there is no way to turn it off?
We are a professional publishing business and our editors are not wrong when they say it is taking too long. We may have 3 proofers go through a 50 page document and leave about 300 changes of various types for the editor to go through. 6 sec is for the smallest document. Our longest is a 78 pg doc and it takes 54 sec to do each update in InDesign on the fastest computer! I haven’t checked but probably much longer in InCopy.
There is a serious problem that InDesign CS5 and InCopy CS5 (and previous editions) have in dealing with long stories. It is obvious to me that this is not an issue in small stories that would appear on page layouts and in magazines.
This does not even get into the horrible problems we’ve had with corruption of long stories that are exported into InCopy icml files and then simply freeze and become unusable in InCopy or InDesign. When they lose a days work, editors and proofers don’t scream. They cry. We are now trying to figure out how to finish this cycle and seem to be stuck with putting InDesign on all the proofers and editors computers. Which is freaking out the designers.
Adobe’s tech support sounds clueless to this problem. We’d welcome Adobe to our company to work this out (I’m not kidding). They’d need to send an engineer and a couple of psychotherapists (kidding…about the engineer…oh, I mean about the psychotherapists).
We really like virtually everything else about these programs. I think Adobe is a simply brilliant company who has made giant strides lately. We use Production Premium programs to make our DVD sets and we are doing a really big web app in flex. Somehow they overlooked the problems with long stories in InDesign and InCopy. This wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t advertise that it is perfect for long docs.
To make InDesign and InCopy work for long docs:
1)         We need the option to turn off reflowing while doing the review process. Or it can simply update the visible text immediately and do the rest in the background as CPU resources allow.
2)              Fix the corruption problem in big icml files. This problem has made InCopy unusable in our company.
Thanks for listening Adobe! (Adobe….aaaddooobeeee….anyone there?....heeeelllloooooo)
--Tony