Feature Request: View exported PDF when packaging

Part of my workflow on job completion / sign-off is to package my InDesign document [File > Package]
I use this feature to ensure I have fonts, links, IDML and Print-ready PDF for archiving purposes and saw that CC greatly improved the packaging feature by adding IDML and PDF options. What I would like to suggest/see is that the PDF option comes with a "View PDF File" when packaging to ensure it has saved correctly / without error. (Indesigns uses the last settings to determine bleed etc. irrelevant to which preset you have selected). It would just save a few more nav clicks along the way.

There are a couple of ways you can view the mp3 path. (1) Right click on the track, and select "Show Song File." (2) Right click on the track, select "Get Info" and look on the Summary tab.
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Hello,
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he lack of this feature severely limits the usefulness of this app. While you're about it I might be inclined to use the other iWork apps if they also included this feature. Right now I'm regretting downloading numbers and won't be getting the others.

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Hello Sly,
I did exactly thuch beast for freehand some years ago. It's called Layersets. Perhaps we can discuss this off list first.
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Curt Y wrote:
My first question is why you want to export metadata to sidecar files. With DNG one of the touted advantages is that all the metadata is written to the file and no XMP file is needed or created.
This actually is a disadvantage that keeps me from using DNG format. XMP sidecar files are extremely useful to transfer updated metadata from the working set to the backup archive. Sidecar files do make life a lot easier.
Usually I will download the memory cards' contents to the computer's internal hard disk. Then I will add some bulk metadata, rename the files, and make a backup to at least one, preferably two external hard disks. Then I will continue working on the images—refining captions, adding more keywords, add labels and rankings, apply ACR settings. Finally I'll want to update the metadata in the backups. With sidecar files, that would require the transfer of kilobytes. Without, I'll need to transfer gigabytes because I'm forced to update the whole image files when actually I only want to update the metadata ... just because Bridge is too dumb to let me export the metadata to sidecar files. Or actually, it does let me export the metadata to a sidecar file—but only for one image file at a time which is totally useless when I need to update the metadata of hundreds or thousands of image files.
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Feature Request: View exported PDF when packaging

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