P: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PDF, BMP etc.)

Some might find it's not an important feature, which is fine - we agree to disagree. The need for this is there nevertheless, and I +1 for it.

...and any file developede from a raw image to a printed piece(someone else can fill in for web), often gets through illustrator and InDesign and Acrobat...at least.

>>What really makes it dificult is that LR is rather fantastic at carefully manaing Raw Tif, Jpg, PSD, files...To support PDF, InDesign, Illustrator....Your family!!! Your family needs help...help them! Ya big monster!

Yes, Raffi, it would make sense for Adobe to let Lightroom better support their own "family" of programs and image formats.

...pt

>>I would like LR to behave with unsupported formats just as it did with video files : Insert a placeholder in the catalog and redirect to "associated" program on access.

Thanks, Simon. This would work for me too.

...pt

another thought....I have been purchasing LR since v1. I would install, and uninstall, then install leave it, and use ACDSeePro to view, (I tried the built in Raw dev for ACDSee..kinda cool but not for someone too serious with technically defined files). So Then I thought I better use CaptureOne as it does a number of things I agree with(Not a DAM), and allows you to see your folders the way they are, and how you manage it as in Explorer. I thought that was great. I took C1 classes , Yet I still favored the way ACRaw would control colors in the BW conversion, and C1 is a different animal..it does things different. You think a drop down or a export or something should be someplace, it isn't. It isn't wrong, but different, and one has to shift mental gears to use it from anything familiar. So when LR3.x (Someupdate) came out..Like the good boy I am..forked over the upgrade fee I have yet to use..and installed it. This time I took more time to learn it as I did with C1. And it was logical, and rather straight forward(wish the import had a stronger warning of where the files go,but)...

Meanwhile still using ACDSee to manage all else. But it was getting fed up with all my changes in LR as its DB doesn't like changes...(If it had the ?mark feature when things are gone, and update, it wouldn't crash so much)
Even so, I did the upgrade to LR4, and thinking at some point there HAS got to be a way to enable viewing PDF at least. As in production going from a photograph we output to InDesign, then to PDF files for magazines, and this is a major cripple in the flow. So to make a long story short(I know, too late)....ANY FILE THAT GOES TO PRESS HAS TO GO THROUGH BECOMING A PDFx FILE. PERIOD.

What really makes it dificult is that LR is rather fantastic at carefully manaing Raw Tif, Jpg, PSD, files...To support PDF, InDesign, Illustrator....Your family!!! Your family needs help...help them! Ya big monster!
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Take a look how ACDSee supports PDF files. and other formats. You have a panel of supported formats and you simply install the converter and bam! From no PDF, to installing Gohstscript, I see and read PDF page by page.

This is what I have suggested on other forums some time ago. Except I like your title much better.

John, what you are saying is that it will never happen?

I don't think many people would have any fuss over some more cost for it.

I have now purchased ACDSee Pro
ACDSEE manager
PhotoMechanic
MediaPro

Countless hours testing other sollutions like FastStone, Bridge, etc

I think before I answer, we would need a good group discussion as we are having here, but with some aim and agreement that it is possible to execute......When I replied to that it was in consideration to business models, and in consideration of Bridges role. Without out that consideration it just points right back to the top, o.p. Support of other formats.

bingo...!!!! agreed

What is the point of that? Develop and Library are basically separate already - they're modules. They're even separate files on disk.