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.
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       Sascha Fronczek
    
 commented Sascha Fronczek
    
 commentedToday, 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.
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedSure would be a great improvement - when? 
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       DW
    
 commented DW
    
 commentedPainful, the very, very, very slow xml processing within InDesign due to a lack on multicore support? 
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedI have a 8 core, and Indesign use only 2!!!! 
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       Andy Keena
    
 commented Andy Keena
    
 commentedI 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
    
 commented James
    
 commentedYes 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
    
 commented Raphaël Freeman
    
 commentedAlso important that the scripting engine would support multi core. I too have an i9! 
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedMedia 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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       David
    
 commented David
    
 commentedWhen i work with a long document, every change i make take a very long time, because InDesign use only one!!! core, when i have 8! Can you improve it? 
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       Matt B.
    
 commented Matt B.
    
 commentedAgree 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.
    
 commented Michael G.
    
 commentedJust 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
    
 commented Andreas Vu
    
 commentedI 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.
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       Bart Van Put
    
 commented Bart Van Put
    
 commentedHad 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.) 
