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Adobe InDesign: Optimizations

Adjust some of Adobe InDesign's preferences, the Display Performance of your document or individual objects, and live preflighting for best performance with Suite.

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InDesign

Preferences

Confirm InDesign detects a compatible GPU and monitor(s) for best performance.

Preferences > GPU Performance:

  • GPU Performance: ☑️

    • Animated Zoom: test this setting by panning and zooming in your document with this item checked and then unchecked.

Display Performance

Confirm which Display Performance mode you’re using.

View > Display Performance:

  • Typical Display - a higher-performance display mode that renders artwork in a lower quality.

    • You can fine-tune how InDesign renders artwork in Typical Display mode here: Preferences > Display Performance

  • High-Quality Display - InDesign renders artwork in its original form, but this display mode can affect InDesign's performance.

ℹ️ You can also tell InDesign to render specific art (i.e. object) in a desired Display Performance mode by:

  1. Right-clicking or Control-Clicking on some artwork in your document.

  2. Choosing the desired Display Performance for that artwork.

Preflight

Disable live preflighting until you need it. Leaving Prefight enabled may result in unnecessary re-reads of externally linked artwork from Suite.

Window > Output > Preflight > On: (unchecked)

Suite

Pre-Cache Artwork

Seek to pre-cache all externally linked artwork in your InDesign document (.INDD). Pre-caching your artwork ensures local performance when InDesign reads your artwork files, particularly when you’re working in High-Quality Display mode.

ℹ️ If you're pre-caching a folder (not individual files), Suite will continue pre-caching any new files uploaded to that folder.

Click here to learn more

Gathering a List of Artwork to Pre-Cache from Suite

  1. You can use Adobe Bridge to open your .INDD, locate all externally linked artwork in your InDesign document, then pre-cache your artwork. (Video)

    1. Drag-and-drop your .INDD to Bridge.

    2. Right-click or Control-Click your .INDD, then choose Show Linked Files.

    3. Right-click or Control-Click a file in the list, choose Reveal in Finder, then choose Add to Pre-Cache.

    4. Repeat this for each file listed in your InDesign document until all files in your InDesign document are pre-cached.

  2. You can use linkReport_to_CSV.jsx by Kasyan Servetsky to generate a list of paths in a Comma Separated Values file, then use the Paths listed in that CSV to pre-cache your artwork.

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