Support for Multicores Performance
The most of us have powerful mutlicore computers. I think for sure indesign coult have a huge performance boost with Multicore support.
Until now only powerful 3D programs or video software uses that power. I think in addition of GPU Support it would be a significant performance boost with multi core support.
For an Example: i got a i7 Quad Core Mac. While writing a big PDF, indesign just uses 1 core.
Jens
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DW
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Painful, the very, very, very slow xml processing within InDesign due to a lack on multicore support?
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Anonymous
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I have a 8 core, and Indesign use only 2!!!!
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Andy Keena
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I am using a 12 Core Mac Pro (2 x 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon) and 64GB of Ram. I an dumbfounded on how much spinning of the ball I get using InDesign, sometimes Illustrator. How much of a factor is an older video card?
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James
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Yes this is needed. I asked for this about 8-10 years ago. They said it would require a complete rebuild of indesign to support multi-cores. I said they better get started. 8 years later, and no change... they're just going to get more and more issues because of this defect.
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Raphaël Freeman
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Also important that the scripting engine would support multi core. I too have an i9!
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Anonymous
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Media Encoder supports multi-core usage.
Photoshop supports multi-core usage for saving PNG files.I often create long PDF files (100 - 400 pages).
Please let InDesign use all cores for PDF export!In the PDF export dialog let user choose how core performance is distributed.
E.g.:
100 % for ultra-fast PDF export.
75 % for medium-fast PDF export, so the machine remains responsive and one can work on another document.
One core could render one page at a time.Anyway, InDesign using only one core is horrible slow. Please improve that!
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Matt B.
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Agree 100%. I've got a brand new i9 CPI with 12 cores, with 11 sat around doing nothing. I've been waiting 20 minutes for InDesign to export my document to PDF so I can send off to print.
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Michael G.
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Just finished making a PDF and I went to watch my core usage out of curiosity--Just one core out of 32 working on it. Sure making the PDF only took 4 minutes... But just think of how fast it would be if it used even 1/3 of what was available.
You'd figure Adobe would be eager to boost performance when they can.
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Andreas Vu
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I second that, this export time on one core is pathetic.
I see one of my cores spike and all the other cores just hang around drink coffee while they could be crunching data out also to help with the speed. -
Bart Van Put
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Had this question in my mind for years. Is it worth upgrading a standard iMac to a Mac Pro just to work smoother in indesign ? Jens thinks not, I assume. Or do you get a better performance just adding RAM memory ? (Working with image-heavy documents, grep styles, etc. at the moment on a server based environment with 6 colleagues; not exactly beachballs all the time, but you just feel something is slow.)