GPU-Acceleration on Windows
It would be brilliant to have this as an option especially since more and more people are using high DPI/4K displays and the CPU is not capable of allowing for smooth zooming/scrolling/panning in most cases. It's working perfectly fine with Photoshop and rather good with Illustrator so I can't see why this shouldn't be possible with InDesign as well.
On my 4K Dell XPS 15 it's quite a pain to scroll through the document or zoom in and out, laggy as hell although this is a very poweful machine!
K. B.
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AdminSanyam Talwar
(Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign)
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GPU support on Windows is now available in the InDesign Prerelease build. We are in the early stages of development and would love your feedback. Try it out and help us improve.
Download/Update the latest InDesign PreRelease build in Creative Cloud under the “Prerelease” category(Refer to “Prerelease_CreativeCloud.png” for reference)
Please apply to the InDesign PreRelease in case you don’t have access to the InDesign PreRelease build – https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/C6DFA254-C40C-4EEB-8F6D-F4AEDA2E6171
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Adobe InDesign team
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Greg Leber
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Nice to see it's been in the backlog for almost 4 years now. Y'all still got any people working on nuts & bolts issues like this that would improve InDesign significantly?
Any progress report? Any roadmap for InDesign GPU acceleration implementation on non-Macintosh platforms?
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Bastien Eichenberger commented
Adobe? Do you have an update about that?
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Enrico Barin Guarise commented
On my Surface Pro I pinch-to-zoom and it works great.
Why can't I also do animated zoom on the desktop with keyboard and mouse like in Illustrator and Photoshop?
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nicky commented
@tenzin They only follow the logic of fashion, trend and profit. They have not understood that both ID and AI are very slow and often crash on trivial operations of ordinary administration,Filling them with new 3D functions, AI etc etc does nothing but weigh down systems that are now old and obsolete. I was taught that the house must be built on thick and solid foundations , here a wolf Ezekiel is enough to make everything collapse .... I had to remove the GPU acceleration in illustrator because it crashed every 2x3 ... Dedicated GPU acceleration should not be better?
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Tenzin T. commented
Why is this in the backlog?
This is essential!
Quit that stupid AI trash that nobody asks for and focus on essential support. -
Stephen Unkrich commented
That must be one crazy long backlog.
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Jean Niklaus commented
I have exactly the same problem...
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Sebastian Nagel commented
it's so ridiculous by now, i'm looking forward to visit this page every year just to see everyone again ... hi folks, nice to see you again - see you again next year!
(oh and by the way: one requirement of indesign 2025 is a multicore CPU ... now let's all guess whether indesign 2025 uses more than one single core to expert a 200 page PDF file ... you know ... one page is an independent unit of information that can be calculated on its own. don't be fooled though ...)
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Ross Tanner
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This is insane that this has not been implemented.
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Ross Tanner
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This is insane that this has not been implemented.
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Ross Tanner
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This is insane that this has not been implemented.
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Anonymous commented
still no good news. 3 years after it got into backlog. and what anout multicore processing?
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Andrew Grywalski commented
The fact this still isn't an option is absurd and only a display of laziness and lack of care for the product. It's been in backlog for nearly THREE years. This type of performance feature is foundational to the type of work being done today.
With Photoshop, Illustrator and a handful of other Adobe products using GPU acceleration, it makes it feel like the internal development structure of Adobe is incredibly siloed with zero collaboration which I find laughably ironic.
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Please stop adding underused features and get the foundation of this product figured out.
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Яковлев Алексей commented
Today I received a mock-up of a 276-page catalog of designer tiles to check and correct errors. I need to view about 2000 high resolution images in a scalable view in a program that has no GPU acceleration and only uses one CPU core... If Publisher adds scripting support before Adobe adds GPU support, I'll probably recommend it all your partners
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Kay
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Adobe... I have to switch to Windows for many reasons. But Indesign on Windows is plain unusable with just CPU and no multi-threading. Indesign is the only piece of software why I keep a Macbook from 2020.
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InstyButte Typesetting2 commented
Check back in 2025...
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EXEC Design
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@Abhinav Kaushik
^^As long as preformance isn't RADICALLY improved which means GPU and multicore CPU implementation (!!!) every other InDesign improvement is secondary on PC systems.
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Uriel Ivan De la Garza Costa commented
It's almost 2024 and Adobe has yet to implement this. Macs have had this feature since around 2017, please stop focusing on AI stuff and start maintaining your software as it should.
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Jay Pee commented
why they disabled this option? do you want me to buy a mac to use it? im not gonna do that Ineed this option back on windows, Indesign 2024 looks terrible without the GPU
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Kimmo Hellström commented
Just started to learn and use InDesign today, and I'm totally amazed how outdated it is.
Just one hour of delving in the app brought up so many issues that if I could do my project in some other software, I would. No scrubby zoom, over all feeling of UI is quite terrible. Navigation between pages etc really clumsy. And no GPU-Acceleration!?!
Maybe Adobe thinks that AI is going to do all the layout-out soon and just stopped to develop this antique piece of software. I feel bad for those that have to use InDesign daily. Maybe they don't know better, how good the UI/UX can be when it is well done.