Adjusting Display Performance


If you want to see images with the text in Layout view while you write and edit, you need to know about adjusting display performance to achieve optimal speed and quality with the software. Note that images will appear only in Layout view and only when you open the complete InDesign layout or an InCopy assignment that isn't limited to placeholder frames. (See Chapter 6 to learn more about working with images in InCopy.)

Tip

You can't see images in Galley and Story views, so the Display Performance settings have no effect on those views.


The default setting, called Typical Display, displays the graphics in your document pretty well. However, if you're only looking at how your text interacts with the placement of images and not the actual content of the graphics, then choose View > Display Performance > Fast Display. This shows the image frames as gray boxes (Figure 1.22) and also eliminates the anti-aliasing in the text. This bare-bones viewing mode allows you to quickly pan and scroll through documents because it limits the amount of information rendered on the screen. When you're ready to see your document in more detail, just choose View > Display Performance > Typical Display.

Figure 1.22. The three display performance settings (Fast, Typical, and High Quality) help you balance speed and quality factors for your workflow.


Tip

If you decide to view all your documents with the Fast Display view setting, you can designate Fast as the Default View option in the the Display Performance pane of the application preferences.


The third display performance setting is High Quality Display. This setting renders all raster images, vector graphics, and transparency at the highest possible quality. However, your document takes much longer to zoom, pan, and scroll due to the complexity of visual information that InCopy has to render. The more images and transparency in your layout, the slower the document displays in High Quality Display. This setting is best used for a quick preview of your layout; the performance hit makes it impractical to work in this mode all the time.

Tip

The Display Performance settings affect only how the document is previewed in InCopy and do not affect the final printed output in any way.


Although we want to be realistic about the trade-offs of the High Quality Display setting, there's an interesting compromise that can be achieved by using Display Performance settings options for individual objects. If you select a single image and choose one of the options under Object > Display Performance, the setting affects only the selected object. This is handy when you need to see a detail in an image that might not be clear with the Typical Display setting. For example, when writing a caption for a photograph, you can turn on High Quality Display for the image, write the caption based on the details of the photograph, and then revert the view settings for that image by choosing Object > Display Performance > Use View Setting.

If you're not happy with the three default Display Performance settings, you can customize them in the Display Performance pane of the application preferences. Choose an option in the Adjust View Settings menu and adjust the controls for raster images, vector graphics, and transparency. To speed up display in any of the settings, you can increase the value for Greek Type Below; this setting means that in Layout view, InCopy displays text smaller than a specific point size as a dimmed gray bar instead of actual text. As you zoom into the Layout view the text will become legible. You can also choose to turn on or off anti-aliasing of text.

Tip

If you want to preserve the object-level view settings for images when you close a document, check Preserve Object-level Display Settings in the Display Performance pane of the application preferences. If you don't enable this option, all object-level settings are reset every time you reopen a document.


One more way to optimize InCopy performance is to control the scrolling behavior in Layout view. In the Display Performance pane of the preferences, look at the Scrolling section; the default setting is High Quality (Figure 1.23). This setting does indeed give you the best quality view when you scroll or pan your InCopy document, but it is also the slowest option. If you want to speed things up a little, choose Better Performance, which renders images and text as grey areas. The middle option, No Greeking, greeks only images.

Figure 1.23. Customize the scrolling performance in the application preferences.





The AdobeR InCopyR CS2 Book
The Adobe InCopy CS2 Book
ISBN: 0321337050
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 122

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