Standard Program for Edit Images on Indesign

[Carmelo5FA3]

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if there is a way to change the program that InDesign open an Image to be edited.

My default setting to open .tif file type is with a simple image viewer, therefore when I click on the “edit original” button in InDesign the image will be opened in the simple image viewer instead of Photoshop,

there is a way to change the program in which InDesign open a given file type in order to be edited?

[Peter Spier]

Instead of using the Edit Original button in the links panel you can right-click either thi eimage itself or the link name in the panel and choose Edit With...

[Carmelo5FA3]

Hi Peter,

thanks for the answer,

I am doing that at the moment, but is a bit time inefficient.

I was wondering if is there an option to choose a specific program as default only for InDesign.

[Peter Spier]

Not that I amd aware of, sorry.

One of the scripters might have a script you could use and you can assign a keyboard shorcut to scripts, so that might be a bit faster.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

It's a function of the operating system so no, there's no way to do this.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm pretty sure there are two different registry entires - one for Open and another for Edit - it might be possible to set two different programs... 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Not exactly solution to your problem - but maybe switch to Adobe Bridge for browsing your photos? 

Then you can keep Photoshop as a default application. 

[Carmelo5FA3]

Thanks Everyone for the clarifications,

for the moment I have created an AHK script to do the mouse work for me, it does the job, not very clean as solution but if it work, it work.

@Robert at ID-TaskerI will try ID-Tasker to see if there is someting to automate my workflow,