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104 Turning InDesign into a speed demon

104 Turning InDesign into a speed demon - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

104 Turning InDesign into a speed demon

I want to go through some of the known culprits for slowing down InDesign, and give you some tips on some little-known preferences that you can turn off or adjust to speed up how InDesign is running. Now first of all, let's go through some of the basics. You need to have enough RAM. InDesign is a memory hog, it does a lot of complicated things. The Paragraph Composer alone needs a lot of memory to figure out how to do the line breaks every time you click inside there and make some letter bold or not. Check the amount of ram that you have on a Macintosh, I can just go right underneath the apple. Go down to About This Mac. This one has six gigs of RAM. That's pretty decent. You want to have at least two gigs. I usually recommend four gigs minimum, two gigs just for InDesign, two gigs for everything else. You also want to have enough hard drive space. The rule of thumb is to have at least 10% free of your hard drive, so if you have a. 500 gig hard drive, you want to have at least 50 gigs…

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