Whish list: Sync also "custom" page sizes. Pleeease.

In InDesign CC is feature to sync settings. It should be to syncing custom settings. But not all custom setting are synced.
For example when you define set of you custom page sizes like A1-6, B1-6, DL or any other custom formats (which you use when creating new document, or new alternative layout, etc) they are not synced. ( + there is no UI way to export/import them.)
Please add CUSTOM PAGE SIZES to sync.
Or dear colleagues adn InDesign fans in community, is there other easy way how to solve this?

Here Re: Custom Page Sizes is solution by roenoz, how to "sync" it manually.
Find directory "Page Sizes" (my contains one file "New Page Sizes.xml")
MAC: [drive]:\ Users > Username > Library > Preferences > Adobe InDesign > [version] > [lang] >
PC: [drive]:\ Users > Username > AppData > Roaming > Adobe > InDesign > [version] > [lang] >
@Copy directory "Page Sizes" to same directory in newer version location.
So when is this so easy, it should be peace of cake for devs to implement a check box to Syncing setting dialog, to let you sync custom page sizes too.

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The file that the pages sizes are kept in is:
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your right.. i ment acrobat pro :-)
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Printing from the exported PDF. The quality I get is exactly just as good as printing any file directly.
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I've discovered that this is a SYSTEM issue, NOT an Adobe issue. The custom page setups are also out of any order in "Mail", "TextEdit", "InDesign" etc. etc. The other apps that I use typically have their own paper size interfaces not requiring to use the default apple one. (Eg. Quark / InDesign).
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The apple system file which controls this is called "com.apple.print.custompapers.plist"
I found this entry on the macosxhints forum:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=23681
2 other users noting frustration with the same problem, but it doesn't offer any solution
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