Opening vs Importing PDFs: Is Native PDF Support Coming to InDesign?

James, thank you for contributing your point of view to this discussion.

As I read your reply, I remembered that, in the early days of InDesign, the idea of InDesign using PDF as its "native document format" was tossed around. 
I think, as a service, InDesign, perhaps ought to allow extracting images out of a PDF as Photoshop does, and, perhaps extracting the text, too. I think those two services would be really useful. Not that I don't like using Photoshop to extract pictures out of a PDF or copying/pasting text out of Acrobat to InDesign, for editing / formatting but using Acrobat itself, at least in the latter years, in my experience, has been somewhat of a challenge, with shortcuts not being on par with those of Illustrator and InDesign. I find it a real pain, sometimes.  But I'll survive 🙂

Got it, Bob!