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[Atlgirl]

Somehow I've made the pasteboard huge! Now it's cumbersome to move from page to page in this 200 page book. How do I reduce the pasteboard margin??

 

[jmgalvin]

I don't know of a way to reduce the size of the pasteboard. If you go to View menu and select Actual size, Fit page, or Fit Spread, you can resize the window to show less of the pasteboard.

Generally, slowness is tied to several things and your machine's display RAM and cpu RAM. The more in each the better. Try going to View menu/Display Performance and select either typical of optimized and see if that speeds things up. Pics might not look pretty with those settings but that's only screen - not print quality.

You can also go to ID prefs/Display performance and play with the sliders to speed up refresh while decreasing the view quality of certain types of images.

If you have a lot of graphics - as opposed to pure text - in a 200 page doc, things are going to get slow unless you have a lot of RAM and a good video card. One trick is to break it into several docs and then merge them later via either the Book feature or by using the Pages pallettes to drag pages from one doc to the next. The do page numbering, etc.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Atlgirl]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I like to hold down the space bar and use the hand to move up and down the pages. The pasteboard is so large now that's not possible. Regardless, I've gone back to an earlier save, when the pasteboard was normal, and just updated that document. I have a G4 and lots of ram, so it's not slow, just cumbersome to cover so much white area surrounding the pages. Still not sure how I caused the change. :0)

 

[jmgalvin]

Oh! The up down space between spreads!

Did you by any chance set a bleed/slug for the bottom. That will increase that measure, especially if you make it real big by making a typo. I did it once and ended up with 5 inches because I forgot the . before the 5.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Atlgirl]

It's obviously something unintended like that. I checked the bleed/slug and that's not it. I did have an illustration floating WAAY outside the pasteboard, so I removed that, but it didn't reduce the size. At that point I gave up and went to the earlier saved version. Fortunately I didn't have to rebuild much design to do that. Thanks again for your thoughts on the mystery!

 

[MarcusStringer]

I've had that happen a few times before with a couple of different documents.
Don't know what I did.

check out this link.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1181641&page=3

I think it's a bug of some sort.

I had to reset a couple of time to fix it, but I won't say that's going to solve your problem.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Atlgirl]

The other comments on the same problem don't really offer a solution, but sometimes it's great to know you're not crazy! I'll try some of the preferences suggestions. THANKS!!

 

[Atlgirl]

Marcus, the suggestion to check out the previous threads, which recommended the adobe forums, turned out to be the answer. Those that suggested to change from vertical to portrait and then back again, made me wonder how the document size could have any effect. That particular suggestion created a nightmare of formatting problems, but it DID put the pasteboard back to normal size. So I reduced the length of page by only .25" and the pasteboard was restored. And changing it back to the correct size made no formatting changes. Now I know. If only I had those 4 hours back!! Thank you again for responding. Bonnie