Indesign Memory Hog
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- scrap_paper
I just started using Indesign CS3 and I am astounded by its need for memory. Absolutely stupid.
Does anyone know of a way to get it to use less system resources?
- MLP0
No.
- scrap_paper0
No like "no possible way" or "no, I'm going to throw my laptop out the window"?
- moamoa0
buy more memory
- Spookytim0
Indesign is too clever for its own good, inviting all sorts of code into its soft warm belly and it quickly gets too bloated to cope.
Quark Xpress, for all its awfulness and faults, allows nothing in but miniscule icon representations fo things and as such is solid, reliable, keeps file sizes tiny and never bloats out across the processors like a dead whale.
- scrap_paper0
I don't understand why I need a fully loaded MacPro tower to run a layout application. Should it really take the same resources to render video on the fly as it does to layout a magazine spread?
Admittedly I could get another gig into my current machine and it is the last release of the pre-intel Powerbooks but still...
- Powerbook with just 1gb...?..
no wondermoamoa - Still though. I can run huge psd's without much issue. Why should a layout program consume so many resources?
scrap_paper - rant rant rant
Time to buy a new Machine anyway I guessscrap_paper - running a macpro with 12gb, and indesign is also sometimes slowmoamoa
- ouch no kidding? Gotta bend over to the hardware industry I guess
scrap_paper
- Powerbook with just 1gb...?..
- scrap_paper0
Spooky, do you think there is any way to dumb it down? You would think there is a way to strip it down a bit.
- I think you can adjust some file handling functionality in the pref's pane.Gucci
- seed0
If you search there are tips on the adobe site for PS and IL anyway. None seemed to be too useful for me.
- Gucci0
"save as" frequently. I think it forces ID to smarten up every once in a while.
I have, however, noticed ID does save much smaller files (in a lot of instances) than quark used to. But then again, quark has been dead for a few years now, thankfully.
- horton0
i'm on a ppc G5... never noticed any issues. how much ram are you sporting?
- scrap_paper0
Not enough truly. I've only got 1 gig. I'm on the verge of buying a desktop (probably an iMac) and I've been holding off on buying more.