icreate Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 Indesign has this really neat feature where, when exporting a PDF, it remembers the last destination the previous PDF for that document was saved. I notice this a lot now that I'm using Publisher as I'm inadvertently saving my PDFs in the wrong folders(!). Publisher seems to remember the last location a PDF was saved in, but not relative to the original document. For example/clarity, lets say I have two projects, numbered 1000A and 2000B. I open 1000A and create my PDF and save it to a folder inside the project folder called proofs ( '1000A > Proofs'). Next I open 2000B, create my PDF and save it. With Indesign it remembers that the last time this document created a PDF it was stored in '2000B > Proofs' and this is the folder it automatically shows in the save dialog. In Publisher it points the last folder used to create a PDF, which in this case happens to have been '1000A > Proofs'. Does that make sense? Its not a life changing problem, more something which you don't realise is a feature, but its only when you move away to another piece of software you realise how useful it was! P.S. Loving Publisher! Jeff McFarland, DarkClown, bures and 1 other 4 Quote
DarkClown Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 Fully agree! Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
Jeff McFarland Posted September 13, 2019 Posted September 13, 2019 Yes. Please. For the love of god at least add some sort of preference to adjust the behavior of saving and exporting files. I can't tell you how many times I've saved and closed a file and then can't find it ANYWHERE. I have to reopen it under "open recent" and then "reveal in finder" just to figure out where the file went. My vote would be that the "default" behavior would be to save as and export in the same folder as the current open document. Then add a preference if you want for whatever other situations might also be valid. Currently, if I open a document I worked on a week ago and immediately attempt to "Save As: a new version, I expect to find myself in the same folder as the document I just opened. Please, please, please fix this! Wosven and icreate 2 Quote
Catshill Posted September 13, 2019 Posted September 13, 2019 It was an issue I had with the Serif applications as well. I got used to having to re find my PDFs exported from DrawX8! A 'fix' would be good. Quote
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