Tweak Adobe Indesign? Antialias filter?

Sven Glueer

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Apr 8, 2001, 11:56:59 AM4/8/01

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Hi
i got a question to Indesign as it runs extremely slow. In my opinion
its because it has got an antialias filter for the fonts. Can i switch
that off to accelerate the programm? how? Its quite bad that the program
becomes extremely slow when i got 2 pages full of text :)

In fact i dont think its because of my computer. (Celeron 550mhz, 256mb
ram) In MS Word its no problem to have 500 pages full of text. So why is
it so hard for Indesign.

Thanx
Sven

Sven Glueer

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Apr 8, 2001, 12:01:31 PM4/8/01

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Oh i found the Option with the antialiasing :)
Sorry

But do you know any other tips to tweak indesign?
thank you :)

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Philipp Steffen

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Apr 8, 2001, 12:29:26 PM4/8/01

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This is quite interesting!
Where did you find the option with the antialising? I have the same problem,
but can`t find this option.
Please tell your knowledge to us!!!

Thanks,
Philipp Steffen

Eric Gill

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Apr 8, 2001, 10:03:18 PM4/8/01

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Sven Glueer wrote:
>
> Hi
> i got a question to Indesign as it runs extremely slow. In my opinion
> its because it has got an antialias filter for the fonts.

That is handled by Windows (TT) and Adobe Type Manager (T1). Turn them
of from there.

It won't help your display speed noticeably, though.

> Can i switch
> that off to accelerate the programm? how? Its quite bad that the program
> becomes extremely slow when i got 2 pages full of text :)
>
> In fact i dont think its because of my computer. (Celeron 550mhz, 256mb
> ram) In MS Word its no problem to have 500 pages full of text. So why is
> it so hard for Indesign.

Mostly because of the lovely multi-line hyphenation/adjustment text flow
features. The beautiful results are achieved through sacrificing speed.
An earlier version of the system was available as an XTension for Quark
Xpress (until Adobe bought it) and gave similar results.

If you can live without the feature, it may be possible to turn it off.
Otherwise use PageMaker or Quark Xpress instead.

John Doherty

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Apr 9, 2001, 12:05:35 AM4/9/01

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Sven Glueer <glu...@gmx.de> wrote in
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>But do you know any other tips to tweak indesign?

Turn off the multiline composer.

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Miguel Tavares

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Apr 9, 2001, 3:55:10 PM4/9/01

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It DOES make a difference:
Go to Edit/Preferences/Text. Uncheck Type Options/Anti-Alias Type

InDesign has its own anti-aliasing.

Eric Gill

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Apr 9, 2001, 4:04:53 PM4/9/01

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Gack. Double aliasing- great idea. <rude noise>

Marek Williams

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Apr 12, 2001, 2:51:27 PM4/12/01

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Eric Gill <eric...@yahoo.com> dijo a todos por la internet:

No, just once. Everything else uses what ATM provides. InDesign does
not. It keeps all the fonts open and does its own anti-aliasing.
Supposedly this makes a better preview, but in my experience, I can't
tell a lot of difference between turning it on or off in InDesign. I
assume that with it off InDesign then uses what ATM provides. At least
it looks the same as what I get in other apps.

Don't reply to the e-mail address in the header. It's bogus. But
I read the newsgroup every day so post here.

Jeff R. Harmon

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Apr 20, 2001, 1:11:18 AM4/20/01

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In article <3AD11835...@yahoo.com>, Eric Gill
<eric...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mostly because of the lovely multi-line hyphenation/adjustment text flow
> features. The beautiful results are achieved through sacrificing speed.
> An earlier version of the system was available as an XTension for Quark
> Xpress (until Adobe bought it) and gave similar results.

Actually, that's not terribly accurate. InDesign (and your computer)
will get faster in time.

JR