Indesign CS4 - Print Booklet Help.

Hi,
I have just been looking at the "Print Booklet" function in CS4 and was hopping you could help with some advice.
All of my jobs get sent to me as PDF's ready for imposing for our indigo 5000 Presses. From what i can see all I need to start using "Print Booklet" Effectivly is to find good .PDF importer plugin. What I was wondering is there another way of doing it (rather than placing each page seperatly from the PDF) and any sugestions of a good PDF inporting plugin (free if possible) would be great!
Thanks in advance.
/loki

If the artwork is supplied correctly then the indigo software can be great but still theres the time issue and unless you buy an extra lisence (not 100% certain on this just what ive been told) you can only have the software installed on the press work station. sadly though the artwork usualy isnt supplied right but the main problem would be time, with two presses running back to back prints + breakdowns etc theres just not enough time.
there is HP smartstream which is another software they offer for setting up documents for the indigos but after running the trial version a couple of times Its not actualy any better than using indesign with a couple of plugins.
If someone knows differantly or wants to argue the power of smartstream please do id be interested to hear it, I am only a beginner at pre-press after all

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[Ann.] Before starting yet another discussion complaining about InDesign's "Print Booklet ..."

If InDesign's "Print Booklet" feature isn't doing what you want, please try the "Booklet SC 5.0" script (formerly "Booklet CE").
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Nice looking dialog. I added [Ann.] to the title to make it clear what this post is.
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