When adding new hyperlinks, uncheck “ Shared Hyperlink Destination” to reduce the hyperlinks shared between documents.
Find any links marked red and either resolve the link, or delete broken links by selecting the URL from the panel list and manually deleting it. Return to the Hyperlinks panel, open the Menu, and select “ Delete Unused Destinations” to clear unused anchor links.
Go to Window > Interactive > Hyperlinks to open the Hyperlinks panel, then click the hamburger Menu icon, and uncheck “ Auto Update URL Status.” The hyperlink check background service can be turned off to boost speed, especially in large interactive documents. This can happen often between monthly e-newsletters as the old version becomes the template for the next. Additionally, some documents share hyperlinks between them. A long list of hyperlinks means this background program is working longer and consuming more resources. InDesign runs a background program that constantly checks the live status of each hyperlink in a document. In Creative Cloud, simply exit the program and select the button “ Clear clipboard” from the dialog window that appears. Adobe Creative Suite programs have the option to Purge the clipboard.
If that item isn’t needed again and it’s quite large, empty the clipboard to free up some RAM again. InDesign saves the data from the most recently copied item to this clipboard. The clipboard provides short-term data storage in RAM to remember copied items. InDesign defaults to “ Typical Display.” If a document seems slow, check that View > Display Performance is set to “Typical Display” versus “ High Quality Display.” If Typical still seems slow, consider downgrading the quality and boosting program speed with “ Fast Display.” Optimize a Slow Adobe InDesign CCĪdjust the preview quality of a document to favor speed and performance over quality and visual precision.