Illustrator and InDesign should work together

My general request is that since they are produced by the same company I believe that AI and ID could be made to coordinate with each other. At present they have difficulty "talking" to each other. It think it would be a good idea to have them work in similar ways and be able to transparently trade information between them. Some specific points where I would start:
The print dialog. AI allows you to position what portion of an oversized image you'd like to print. ID does not, but should.
Text handling. Text copied in one application loses all its attributes when pasted in the other. The default should be for the attributes to be conserved, but as far as I can tell this can't even be selected. Text handling is VERY basic!
Put things in the same place. Many, if not most, of the commands are in different places. Hyphenation, for example, is handled completely differently in the two applications. The maximum sizes of the art boards are different in the two applications. Clearly not much thought was put into what features could be handled the same way.
The two applications have their separate roles, but there is quite a bit of overlap in what they do. Those things should be done the same way as much as possible, eliminating the need to memorize two keystrokes, etc for the same feature.

I won't deny that a lot of things could be smoother betrween the two, but I'd sure hate to seeID's text handling dumbed down to the level of Illustrator, and I'm not sure they can port ID's text engin over all that easily. While the programs are owned by the same company, and there is effort underway to unify a lot of features, all of the programs in the creative suites have unique histories and independent development teams, so it isn't going to happen overnight.
I't not particularly intiutive or user friendly, but you actually can print a section of an oversized layout in ID. Raed about custom Tiling in the Help Files.

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