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Janice,

Sheila's post lists the plugin I was talking about; I could not remember the developer's name or the link to it.

The Archive plugin has nothing to do with the printer. It's main purpose is to COPY a book and all its document files, along with all the graphics and text inserts used in those files, into one folder, which you can conveniently create on your desktop. It also RELINKS all the graphics and text inserts to point to the book and files in the folder you designate. Thus, it copies everything into one place so you can hand it off to a translator, for example, or burn it to a CD; hence the name Archive.

But once you have everything on your desktop, you can create a PDF, and working on your desktop is much faster than working over a network, especially if some graphics are used in multiple places in your documents.

BEWARE though that your files stored on the network are the main source files. If after copying them to your desktop you find something that needs editing, editing the file on the desktop and then copying it back to its original place on the network means you will have to relink all the graphics and text inserts to their locations on the network, which can be time consuming, especially if the graphics are in several folders. I think of it as a one way street to my desktop for printing purposes, NOT editing.

As Sheila says, it is only $25, and it really cuts down the time to create PDFs, IF the time problem is due to working over the network. My PDFs still take 30 minutes or so, but that is quicker than an hour or more.

Good luck,
Van