We use InDesign in our printing department to place images for printing on our Epson Printers.
At the moment we have page templates with Auto-Fit frames placed and ready to accept the various sizes of supplied images (clients always manage to supply images to the wrong dimensions).

Here's what we do :
1. Call up a template.
2. CMD-D to load the Place Gun with multiple files (anything from 2 to 50 - sometimes more).
3. Click in each frame to place the loaded images.

Here's where I believe the procedure could be enhanced - in fact it's the only hold up in the whole process.

The only option currently available to the Place Gun is to click inside an existing frame and place the image.
But often the file is portrait when the frame is landscape (or visa versa).

What would be brilliant is if a modifier key could be assigned to change the orientation of the placed file so that when you click it automatically goes into the frame at 90 (or even -90) degrees.

Hope this makes sense.

The modifier key should also work if the Place Gun is loaded without frames having been created.
So a click and drag with the modifier key pressed would place the image at 90 degrees to it's normal orientation.

Sure I'm not the only one who would find this useful.
Or maybe that should read - hopeful that I'm not the only one who would find this useful !!

Thanks !!!!