So I found and read a little more about this. The ideal technique seems to be to place your cursor in the text where you want the pic, then use Place for one pic at a time. In a perfect world, this comes in styled with the anchor in the right place, pushes the rest of the text out of the way, and floats right where it's supposed to.

Not so far, but I'm working on it.

Wow. Thanks so much, Anne-Marie! I figured it had to be there someplace, but nothing showed up when I searched Adobe help or these forums for “export embedded images”. What a great resource this site is….thank you guys for all the work you do on it.

(BTW, I found out what happened — they had imported a Word file that had the images already inserted in it, and they just left them in place.)

Thank you, David. I'll give it a shot. Great interview with Russell Viers, by the way!

Thanks, Anne-Marie. I'll try rebuilding prefs again. The PDF comes out perfectly and it's already open in Acrobat (v.9) when I switch to it. Everything about it seems pretty normal, other than the fact that my computer instantly (and I do mean instantly) switches me back to InDesign once the file's created.

BTW, if I manually have Acrobat in the foreground, waiting for an in-progress PDF to appear, it also switches me back to ID once the new PDF completes itself and loads in Acrobat.

As for re-associating the extension, all my PDFs already open in Acrobat just fine.

I had managed to get most of the way myself, if turns out. But it wasn't working right. I thought it was the GREP I was creating, but it seems there must have been some other weird characters in there. I ended up replacing their mess by hand. it's fine. And (as usual) I learned a lot in the process. Always a good thing.

Thanks!

Brilliant. That'll do it! Thanks!

Yep. That's as far as I got — same page. I thought I'd found the secret, but the lack of dots killed it. Oh, well. I knew if it were possible, this would be the place where somebody would know how to pull it off.

Thanks!