InDesign: a bad choice for a dictionary?

InDesign gets more people to create interactive PDF files, Flash buttons, eBooks, and even complete with sites. My standard advice to these people comes down to this: InDesign is primarily a tool for the design of books with. Printed material. Everything else is a bonus, and you should not expect the performance outstanding, output optimized or additional functions for one of these 'by-products '. It is a good choice to make pages, nothing else.

So I used InDesign CS4 to do the layout for a large dictionary; > 650 pages, two columns, small fonts, about 6600 characters per page. Three paragraph styles 'main', indicating the main entrance, entry, additional information. About 15 additional character styles: Word main entry, usual bold and italic for emphasis, but also a custom arrow, a small space custom, backgrounds for indications of subentry and custom exhibitors - more GREP a few styles to avoid bad between a few combinations of marker frequently intervened. Every single paragraph of 2 to 8 lines contains at least 10 characters styles.

I was wise enough to not put everything in a single large document; It's 20 separate files, one for each letter. Range of sizes of about 3 MB of files up to 10MB - and all this is all text, no graphics.

So text corrections arrived, I have my doubts. Was the appropriate choice for it in InDesign? Here's the problem:

Each click of the mouse, turn page, scroll, or deletion or insertion of a single character costs at least 10 minutes and sometimes as much as 20 seconds.

I created books in bulk before with this same version, same treatment up to 500 pages of text (before you divide them upward in files section, just for convenience); but I've never seen this kind of maddening / teeth gnashing/extremely frustrating behavior before. Of course, I'm a reasonable guy and he should expect that the ID gets slower with more and more complex page layouts and formatting of the text. But really: a click in a Word, wait 10 seconds, press DELETE, wait 10 seconds?

Moreover, I am always to CS4 instead of upgrading to a more recent versions is because those still even more run slow (it is really funny: I found that ID CS5.5 feels already sluggish when there is nothing on your screen but a blank document - har, har, har...). I can't imagine "redevelopment" would all of a sudden these whiz files on my screen.

Maybe I should downgrade the docs for CS3, do my corrections with that, then re-load in CS4?

Frustrating your,.

[Jongware]

You see an improvement if you (temporarily) change your GREP style to apply a character that isn't affecting the breaks?

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