This is or should be a simple task and maybe Nitro or even Adobe reader could do it. Once upon a time, I ran across a very neat program that could take a folder full of pdfs and in short order create a "Flah" type "Flipping Book". Nothin gto fancy but it was impressive at the time.
The actual NEED is to simply have a way to maintain the directory structure the files are stored in. This is the correct order for what is needed and preorganized to present an electronic version o9f the files in a directory organized like the printed notebook would have been. The "Flipping book" would have been a nifty addition that the user could copy to a few flash drives to hand out at a meeting if necessary to allow each person to "flip" though their copy at the pace they wanted to.
The need for this though is to allow the Users here to have a way to actually print out a pre-organized "notebook" of sorts to carry with them on a business trip .
There have been enough times when the lack of an internet connection or failure of their laptop of some other reason left them high and dry when their only copy to present is on their website if it cannot be accessed.
To resolve this, i only needed tobe able to print out the pre-organized folder and sub folders that contain the files in the order in which they are stored. It sounded easy enough until tried it.
I may be trying too hard but I have access to the actual web-server so the files do not require downloading for me to do something like this. While I would like to offer the electronic version of "the book" the programs i tested for doing this took an extremely long time and so far i have not gotten any output that i could use, although i admit i have not tried that many nor for that long.
I thought i would get some opinions if anyone else has ever tried to print out a "booklet" or "notebook" in the same format as the files are stored on the harddrive. They are all just PDF files in organized sub folders. It seems ther should be a simple enough utility that could be set to print all pdf's in the folder and sub folders while putting in a separator sheet labelled with the name of the sub folders as they change.
If anyone knows of one that would do this I would be more than happy to purchase it. The one very high-tech version i was hopeful for had just about every feature in the world and would probably need me to run every print job. The program was full of features but required tech support from China and their time is a bit off from the time i normally work.
This is something i need to keep simple enough to allow the Users who own the files to connect through the server to print them out in the office. The Old Flash/Html-pdf Flipping book program i don't remember as being that hard but so far I cannot find the one from 3 years back.
For most of these people i need something not much more complicated than "Print"
All ideas appreciate. I have a copy of Nitro pdf and one of Adobe Pdf from about a year back (ver 12 maybe) if there is a procedure in either to handle things like this.
Thanks
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I 100% agree that this is sloppy control. But the place i work for is well known for not shopping for software at the equivalent of the Doillar Store of Software! 
