This is insane that this has not been implemented.

...and we won't have it in 2025, either.

It's absurd, to say the least, that we still don't have multicore support for InDesign at the year of 2024.

This drives me nuts. I do a lot of work that involve placed PDFs, most often CAD drawings. To do anything I need to have them set to hi-res display, which slows everything to a crawl. Yes, I know these placed drawings are complicated with lots of objects, but it's maddening that while the wheel spins and it updates every couple of seconds while drawing a simple shape to annotate the base drawing, Task Manager sits there showing InDesign at a measly 15-20% CPU usage (and my overall system only at 30%), and 0% GPU usage because InDesign still doesn't support using the GPU on Windows. I could bug IT for a laptop upgrade as mine's 4 years old now, but it's still not going to address the main issue which is that InDesign will only use a fraction of the resources available to it.

Hey Adobe, I have news for you... Multicore-CPUs are kind of a thing in 2023. Care to implement this in Indesign?

this is such a pain in 2023, i feel uncomfortable starting indesign (my day-to-day program!) as it feels so much slower than any other application i'm using due to the lack of support for multicore (and GPU acceleration).

At least, please, do the obvious things like multicore support for PDF exports ... 1 core per page, or at least please one core per document export? anything?

Adition to one of the comments, not only indesign and illustrator but also phshop is slower. When i do the selection refinement it is slower on my brand new computer than on my 10 years old PC with master collection.

+1

The performance of indesign is really affecting my day-to-day workflow. I have a powerfull machine and I cannot believe how sluggish, both indesign, and illustrator are running... Seems like it was quicker way back before Creative cloud was a thing... ://

I have a pretty decent Threadripper 3955wx system. InDesign and Illustrator are a joke. I spend most of my time waiting on them to respond. I typically work with files that are from a few hundred megabytes to a few gigabytes in size.
I am actually able to edit 4k video at 60fps using just my cpu. But when I try to update a vector background in InDesign, the display often corrupts and the program becomes unresponsive. I've been trying to send a rather complex file to print for over 90 minutes, and it is barely 75% done. Meanwhile, I can't use InDesign for anything else. 15 cores are just idling. 0% disk use. 0% network. 0% gpu. 0-3% cpu. This is asinine.

Is there any way to tell if Adobe is ever planning to support more CPU cores to speed up InDesign? I contacted an Adobe Support rep this past week asking if this was finally the case, or if it was even on the horizon and the person literally just linked me to the minimum system requirements. Sigh.

I was contemplating getting a Mac Studio, but then I think to myself, is this even going to expedite my workflow if I am using InDesign day in and day out, which to my knowledge is still not optimized to use additional CPU cores that are found in modern systems?

I think using multicores during PDF export should be done at a minimum now.

Yes. Please let InDesign utilize the full potential of multithreaded CPUs. I believe this could eliminate many other complaints regarding slowness and lacking responsiveness of InDesign.

I'm speechless, how is this application not using multiple threads....

I don't understand, why InDesign still isn't taking advantage of multicore-systems. Lots of professionals spent thousends of dollars into high-performance machines, with many, many cores - but when working with InDesign (and also many other programms) the majority of cores are in idle.

It is pretty anoying to see, that it is impossible to speed up the workflows on faster and way more expensive machines. I do databased puplishing. My documents are usually many hundred megabytes in size. Every small change on a masterpage takes minutes to be applied... no difference between a 24-core Threadripper or a 6-core Ryzen 5 or a M1 MBA... that sucks !!!

Todays workhorses tend to get more cores instead of higher clock-speeds. So Adobe software enginieers: PLEASE help us professionals !!!!

PLEASE make InDesign using Multicores. I work with large projects with many hundert megabytes of size. I have a 24-core Threadripper - wich is not significant faster than my old 8-core machine... for 10-times the prize... waiting for InDesign to display changes sucks !!!

The number of votes here drastically understates the issue. Your average user that is being frustrated with InDesign performance doesn’t know to complain about things like core utilization or windows GPU acceleration.

If this isn’t the main focus of the InDesign programmers, then there is some serious mismanagement going on. Everyone on the planet has seen the trend toward multi core processing for well over a decade. I am running a 16 core 128GB of RAM desktop up against 3000+ page docs that can’t be split up almost daily. I never utilize more than 5% of my system. Fix this or lose users.

Today, if you buy a new Mac, they have 4–8 cores, but the MHz speed is going down cause the temperatures of each core.
InDesign is running only on 1 core and it will be slower on a newer Mac cause the lower MHz. So please, give InDesign multi core support on OS X.

Sure would be a great improvement - when?