Proper way to set up an InDesign document for performance?

Hello there,
I'm wondering if I am using the product wrong, because I am having a heck of a time with the performance of my documents grinding my computer to a halt.
I'm starting a new project, it's a 92 page book. On each page will be one or two *hi-res* pieces of art, at around 450dpi. Multiply this by 92, and you get something big. In the past I have simply placed the artwork which creates a link back to the original, and update the original as needed. However the last time I did this, when I got to like page 22, the InDesign document was no longer usable, it just killed the PC (a modern one).
In that case I was placing Adobe Illustrator .ai files. Maybe that was the reason? In this case, I need to place PSD files.
So my questions are a) what's the best way to place the files and b) what format should I place the PSDs? I need to export this in PDF form for print.
Thanks for any help! It's been ages since I've done print work.

Well, there a couple of vague statements in your question, but I am going to take a quick stab at it before we get into that.
Yes, when you drop an image (photo, illustration, etc.), into an InDesign file it creates a link and you can edit the original as needed and it will be updated in the InDesign file.
First make sure you're updating the files one at a time. Select the element you want to "fix", click Edit> Edit Original and make your changes. Save the original file, then check in with the InDesign file and see that the image has updated, then move onto the next.
Second you can set up these linked files to display within InDesign as low-res versions to keep your system running faster. Give that a try also. You can set it up from View > Display Performance or by Right clicking on the image and selecting Display Performance > Fast Display.
As for the vague statements, because others will ask.
What version of InDesign?
What type of system specifically? Processor, Ram, Video Card, Video Ram, etc.
What is it doing to your system? Locks, crashes, explodes into pieces?
p.s.
Why 450 dpi files?
What type of files? Tiff, PDF, JPEG, etc?

Similar Messages

  • Is there a way to trace back an indesign document from which a certain jpeg was exported?

    I have a jpeg image that was exported from indesign a long time ago. I no longer know where the indesign file is located or it's name, but I need to edit the text of the jpeg and the only way to do that is by editing the original indesign document and reexporting it. Is there a way to trace back an indesign document from which a certain jpeg was exported?

    boshalosh wrote:
    I have a jpeg image that was exported from indesign a long time ago. I no longer know where the indesign file is located or it's name, but I need to edit the text of the jpeg and the only way to do that is by editing the original indesign document and reexporting it. Is there a way to trace back an indesign document from which a certain jpeg was exported?
    Depending on how the text interacts visually with the image, it might be possible to use the fill property of the content-aware deletion feature of recent Photoshop versions to remove the text with little or no evidence of the deletion, then apply text over the graphic however you like.
    HTH
    Regards,
    Peter
    Peter Gold
    KnowHow ProServices

  • My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?

    My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?
    It would be so much easier having seperate accounts but we have hundreds of her purchased songs on my account and she would need to be able to access these from her account. Possible?
    Also, if we bought a song in future we would want to be able to both have access to it.
    Alternatively, what is the easy way to sync two distinctly different contact lists to one iTunes account?
    Thank you in advance.

    FYI: iTunes account (used to make purchases) is not the same as iTunes library (iTunes on your computer with music, movies, etc.).
    ecbclb wrote:
    Will we have to create a seperate account for her, or can we all have the same one?
    You can but you will not be able to limit what she syncs.
    I would like to avoid 'checking' and 'unchecking' individual songs every time one of us tries to synch our ipods to the library.
    I don't recommend using (only) the checkmarks to select what to sync.
    Each of you can create your own playlists then sync only those playlists.
    Then add/delete from your own playlists to change iPod content.
    The only time I uncheck items is if I rarely/never want to sync them to anything, such as Christmas music or old audiobooks.
    I suggest you each have your own computer login account. Then everyone has their own contacts, calendars, and everything else.
    You and your husband can share an iTunes library and let your daughter have her own.

  • I have an iTunes account with my own music library.  My wife wants to have her own music library.  Is there a way of setting up a sub account for her, or do I have to set of husband playlists and a separate set of wife playlists?

    I have an iTunes account with my own music library.  My wife wants to have her own music library.  Is there a way to set up a sub account for her, or do I have to set up a set of husband playlists and a set of wife playlists?

    Sorry, but that's not possible.
    You can share iTunes libraries on a network >  iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer

  • What is the best way to set up an external drive for video storage

    What is the best way to set up an external drive for video storage?

    Check the formatting. It need to be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). This is also known as HFS+.
    FAT32 and NTFS formatting will not work with iMovie.
    If necessary, you can reformat using Disk Utility.
    Make one large partition. No need for multiple partitions.
    Do moves or copies to the external drive through iMovie as detailed in iMovie Help. If you move Events in the Finder, they may become unlinked from the projects that use them.

  • Best way to set up two new iTouches for kids

    I have a two new iTouches for my daughter (8) and son (5). My iPhone is set up with iTunes on my iMac computer. Both kids have an a user account on the iMac. What is the best way to set up the iTouch's for my kids?
    Do I use my Apple ID for their iTouch and sync it to iTunes on my iMac user account (same as my iPhone)?
    Do I use my Apple ID for their iTouch and set up iTunes on their user accounts on my iMac?
    Do I get my kids their own Apple ID and sync it to iTunes on my iMac user account?
    Do I get my kids their own Apple ID and sync it to iTunes on their user accounts on my iMac?
    Do I set up one Apple ID for both kids and sync to iTunes so they can have the same games and only pay once?
    I also have an iPad that I sync to iTunes on my usser account.
    Thanks

    I have the same dliemma. Daughter 8, son 6 - 2 new itouches for xmas - one library , my iPad, wife's iPhone ??
    I was intending on just keeping one library (this does contain music with explicit lyric content etc) and manage their music via separate playlists.
    As far as accounts and restrictions go, I was going to set them up with their own itunes account (using mail addresses only I can use). Load the account up with a voucher each.
    The restrictions I was going to apply at the iPod (rather than the account) using a PIN I know - this way you can limit Safarii browsing (i.e. turn it off), youtube, and the age limit to the apps they can install and run - and the movie ratings allowed etc.
    Happy to hear other ideas though - I'm intending on setting this up BEFORE they get them.

  • Is there any way to set global language as english for users  in portal

    Hi,
    Is there any way to set global language as english for all the users  in portal (for all the screens,applications etc) irrespective of browser settings,language in jco,user settings in backend .
    the reason why i am asking is we are implementing global implementation project and for some users in switzerland because of their browser is not english they are getting language other than english.we dont want to ask each user to change their browser language.we just want to force the portal to display content only in english
    Thanks
    Bala Duvvuri

    Hi ,
    You can add property  'request.mandatorylanguage=<your_language>'
    and property  'request.mandatorycountry'
    on file 'prtDefault.properties' located in :
    ..server0\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root\WEB-INF\portal\system\properties\prtDefault.properties
    Then restart the server.
    See :
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/42/938297a5061d69e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
    Regards,
    Gilad

  • How do I set up an InDesign document in another language?

    I have laid out an InDesign document in English. It will be very easy for me to copy/paste my translated text for Spanish since my fonts include the accents, etc. for Spanish. But, how do I do it for a language that uses cyrillic (or other) characters instead of normal letters? I will be given the text in Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog, and Korean in a Word document. Will I need to purchase special fonts for these languages? I'm assuming that if my English InDesign file is using Helvetica Neue Lt Std, that a copy/paste will not work when I'm pasting Russian text. If I will need special fonts, can you recommend some for these languages (for PC; opentype or postscript)? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

    Well, I can answer all of your questions, but I'm feeling like you ought to be answer some of them yourself in order to be able to demonstrate yourself competent of typesetting these languages in the first place. For instance: a brief visit to Wikipedia will reveal that Tagalog is typeset in Latin script. Just make sure that it's not marked as English, and that hyphenation is off, and you should be okay with whatever English-language fonts were originally selected for the project. This is partially because Tagalog typographical rules are not as stringent as English rules are, and many of the rules tend to hew to US English standards in any case.
    However, that cannot be said for Russian at all. Russian typographical rules are more stringent than English rules. They don't have the pick-your-own-style-guide problem that English has. Ever watched people argue over the Oxford comma? Much less likely to have that kind of dispute in Russian. But since you don't know the rules, you won't know when you're breaking them.
    Russian and Vietnamese are both supported by comparatively narrow arrays of fonts. There's a Russian foundry called Paratype that will have a very wide array of Cyrillic cuts of familar fonts. Vietnamese is harder to find. The advice from Ellis is good. I'd also point out that any Adobe "Pro" font stands a good chance of having Russian and/or Vietnamese. I am pretty regular user of Myriad Pro and Hypatia Sans Pro (with all of the extra typographical doodads turned off).
    Chinese and Korean are so different that there isn't even very much hope that you can go out and find a font and do it yourself. Fonts for both languages are incredibly expensive. The free fonts that came with your OS might be okay; the ones that came for free with InDesign are also good. But in neither case should you expect a full set of weights, or any italics whatsoever. (Also: don't fake an oblique by adding skew; it looks about eight thousand times worse in Chinese than it does in English.)
    I would strongly advise that you have all of your documents proofed by the translators. For Korean, it'd almost be mandatory; your formatting job stands a decent chance of being Worse Than Useless. (About ten percent of the Korean I handle in InDesign fails to wrap at spaces and breaks in the middle of words.) If there is any chance that you can job this out to a pro, I'd suggest that you take it. It'd be far better for your non-English-language readership if you as a designer critique the typically sub-par design job offered by your translation firm's DTP department than you, as a designer, render the translated text poorly and not have an in-language reader tell you where you've botched it. In the first case, it's probably ugly, but in the second case, it's maybe illegible.

  • Way to detect if an Indesign Document has unsaved changes

    I have an InDesign document that I have saved. After saving the document, I make some changes to it. Now I want to detect if there are any unsaved changes in the document through JSX. I have tried to use the property document.saved, but this method only tells me if the document was saved for the first time.
    If have some unsaved changes in a document that has been previously saved, document.saved still returns true.
    Is there any other way to detect unsaved changes for a document?

    @Kapoor – you could tell by the layoutWindow name. If a * is in front of the name, the document is not fully saved.
    if(app.documents[0].layoutWindows[0].name.match(/^\*/)){$.writeln("doc not saved!")};
    At least this is true for layout windows on Mac OSX.
    In Windows the little * could be at the end of the name.
    Can't remember. Currently I'm on OSX 10.7.5.
    If it is indeed on the left right side of the name, you have to check on what OS the script is running and do the match accordingly.
    Uwe
    //EDIT

  • Is there a way to find text within InDesign documents in a search using windows environment?

    We are working in Windows and transitioning from using Word to InDesign for our documents.  InDesign documents do not show up in the results when trying to search for a file name or file contents. How can we search for specific text within our InDesign documents?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    http://markzware.com/products/pagezephyr-search/

  • Is there a way to check inDesign documents for color?

    I need to send a file to print and I want to make sure all of the line art is the same color swatch. The printer will charge me if they have to convert a line. The color is dark blue so I can't visually differentiate it from black in some cases. Is there a script to check the document for me or a feature in inDesign to check?

    You can do it in InDesign and in Acrobat Pro, you should check it in both programs.
    InDesign: Window > Output > Separations Preview (Panel)
    Acrobat Pro > Tools > Print Production > Output Preview, select separations
    There you can turn off any ink plate.

  • InDesign document for proofreading in Word?

    Hi,
    Our office is producting a monthly newsletter of about 52 pages. So far, we have been doing it in Microsoft Word and this is working quite well. When the newsletter is finished, I email it to a proofreader who makes the necessary changes and returns it to me. All the changes are clearly visible and can be accepted or rejected with the help of the Reviewing Toolbar.
    However, we are soon switching over to InDesign, and my question is: How can I convert the InDesign document into a format that can be reviewed in Word? Our proofreader (doing his work at home) does not have InDesign.
    I would be gratefull for any suggestions and comments.
    Irmgard Wesselbaum
    (Melbourne, Australia)

    This is a workflow issue.
    Typos and other word-proceesing changes should be fixed PRIOR to placement of the story in InDesign so you aren't correcting dozens of those mistakes after layout is complete. Word files with changes that are waiting for acceptance or rejection are a very large source of trouble.
    That's the theory, but here in the real world there are still usually a few errors that get by, so some changes are pretty inevitable. Since line endings are generally different in Word and ID, one of the most common changes I see is editing to add or lose a line for copy fit or to fix a "runt."  Many of us use PDF for proofing -- sending a PDF to the proofer that has been enabled for commenting in Adobe Reader. This works pretty well, though I find it helps if you can train the proofreader to use the highlighter tool in conjuction with whatever other tool they might be using to make changes.
    ID also comes with a free year of the CS Live online service that is full of bells and whistles for commenting and other markup of your project. I don't use it, primarily because I don't want to get hooked on a service that I'll have to pay for to continue using only a few times a year, but you may feel differently.
    Bottom line, I think is that you should contine to do the writing in Word, but don't attempt fancy Word formatting to make it "look like" your newsletter -- just type. ID is the program for layout. Send the Word file as usual for editing, Accept/reject changes, then place the file into ID. When layout is complete send a new PDF proof with commenting enabled with the understanding that YOU will need to make any new changes, and the types of changes should really be limited to layout issues (if possible) rather than wholesale re-writes. The same goes for images, by the way. If they need some sort of correction, that really should be done before they get to you for inclusion, but again, that isn't always what happens. Fortunately, ID's integration with Photoshop and Illustrator make it a snap to choose "edit original" to pop over to those apps, edit a linked asset, and go back to ID where the link will update automatically.
    Do your writers use styles in Word? Do they even know what that means? Your life in ID will be much simpler, and the layout faster, if you get properly styled (meaning text is tagged with styles, not necessarily that those styles have the correct final formats) documents from your authors. That's seldom the case out here in the real world, but we can all wish. There are several free scripts floating around that will take a typical Word file that is 100% formatted using Normal and bold and italic buttons and will preserve the local changes, creating proper styles. You'll want to try these...

  • Best way to set up a Mac laptop for multiple users with AD logins

    I am setting up a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11 that will be used as a "loaner" notebook for meetings, etc. The computer will be used internally at our company, so users will be logged into our network. Active Directory is set up on this computer to allow all domain users to log in using their own user name and password; this approach helps meet our company's security standards (we want to avoid using one common login or account for all users).
    While this approach seems to fit our needs, it causes problems when it comes to running applications. For instance, each new user is prompted to enter first-time usage information when launching an application (forcing them to contemplate registration information, various settings, etc.). I've given "everyone" read-write privileges to the HD > Library and the Applications folder, but this does not solve anything and may not be a good approach anyway.
    I would welcome any advice on the best way to set up this computer for multiple users logging in via Active Directory. Thanks!

    Where are you installing the third party applications? It sounds like they are being installed in the 'User 1' account, rather than the /Applications folder (admin or not, one user normally can not see into another user's folders). Repairing permissions only works for applications that have a file in /Library/Receipts, not on folders in general, so you would need to check the permissions for the folders in question.

  • Best way to set up a scratch disc for a shared project?

    I am currently working on a project with 4 seperate computers and users working from a shared external 10TB drive. What is the best way to set up the scratch disc and media cache folders?
    Each worker is editing a sequence and then posting back to the 10TB drive.

    Use the identical path (including drive letter) for Media Cache,
    Preview Files and source media files on all machines.
    Premiere will look to absolute, not relative paths for these files.

  • Is there a way to set new default heap size for Java?

    Hi,
    I have a problem with setting global heap size for installed version of Java. By global I mean that every program that will be run using that version of Java, will be using that amount of memory. for heap. I know that I can use Xmx and Xms for each program that I start, but I don't want to do this. I just want to set some kind of property for installed version of Java.

    Launch Firefox and set the web page as wide as you want by dragging the hash marks at the lower right corner. Center the page on your screen where you want it. Then quit Firefox. launch Firefox again. The page should be just where on the screen and sized as you set it prior to quitting.

Maybe you are looking for