InDesign Slow in MacOS Catalina when using a calibrated screen profile.
I am an experienced user of Adobe products for over 20 years. My current subscription is to Adobe Creative Suite (full). I am using a Mac Pro running MacOS 10.15.7 (Catalina) on NVMe SSD with 48 GB RAM and AMD 5700 XT GPU with 8GB VRAM. All Adobe apps are up to date.
If I use a calibrated screen profile, InDesign becomes extremely slow, so that every selection of a menu item, every key-press, every pan or drag, becomes incredibly slow.
This fault is independent of document size (it happens with a new document, with one blank page). It is also consistently and instantly repeatable. To be clear on this: if I open System Preferences > Displays > Color and switch between a calibrated profile and the default "Apple RGB" InDesign switches between slow and fast respectively.
I have changed InDesign preferences with no effect. I have also deleted caches, preferences and application support files in ~/Library, also with no effect. I have uninstalled InDesign and the whole Creative Suite completely, removing all trace from my system, and reinstalled them, also with no effect.
This issue affects Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. It does not appear to affect Photoshop. It does not appear to affect products from other developers either (eg: Capture One Pro), therefore I believe the cause to be something with those two Adobe products.
I would be grateful for a fix, or even to have your assurance that this is a known issue, and a solution is in the pipeline.
Guy Montagu-Pollock
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We have the same problem. Just got a new EIZO CS 2740 and I was wondering if the 4k display resolution ist too much, but then afer days of searching I found the hint to try an other profile.
Until now I can only use the sRGB setting at the display – great, small color space on a wide gamut monitor.I have almost the same hardware, just the GPU is a Radeon RX 580 with 8 GB. The problem is same in Adobe InDesign 2020 and Adobe InDesign 2021. I was able to see the same behaviour on a 2019 iMac 27".
Here is a post in the support community regarding the same problem, but it's marked solved, even though there is no solution in the thread:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/inddesign-2020-slow-performance-on-macos-catalina-10-15-1/m-p/11031304@Adobe: Please fix this