Convert text to outlines in a 200 paged book at 1 click. Is it possible?

If your printer is asking for a whole book to be converted to outlines, you best option is to find a new printer that will accept a press pdf and not require outlines. 

If you don't have the option to change printers, then you should do the outlining in Acrobat Pro, using the preflight outlining option that is available there. 

Outlining fonts is bad - but you can do it

Luckily I just wrote on another forum all about this, so I'll copy and paste it here. (Some text removed as it's irrelvant)

Is it necessary - http://indesignsecrets.com/outlining-fonts-is-it-necessary.php

And how to do it properly - http://indesignsecrets.com/converting-text-to-outlines-the-right-way.php

And do read the comments because there's a lot of useful tips from  people that comment on the blog.

Including the reasons above in the blog posts and comments here are some of my own thoughts

InDesign automatically embeds the fonts in pdfs as standard, (in what I think was sort of an agreement with font makers so people don't supply fonts to printers or  other (as font sharing is illegal)). So your fonts are embedded.

Some fonts still don't allow embedding, but these are usually free fonts  or something with weirdness.

Outlining fonts shouldn't need to be done, the only reasons are

1. For artistic creativity with the letter form
2. The font won't embed in the pdf.
3. There is no third reason.


Fonts are intelligent, they have a thing called "hinting" that at  smaller type sizes, and different styles, like italic, bold etc. would  have slight embelishments in the lettering to make it more pleasing.  When you outline fonts you lose that hinitng. So in high resolution  printing you may not see any difference (lithographic or flexographic  printing) but smaller type on lower resolution output devices (like  digital or your home desktop printer) the fonts can look a bit odd  because they lost their hinting, which means a line of text may appear  bolder than it should or something like that.

If you outline your text you lose the ability to edit the PDF or a last  minute press check could find fault with your text, you don't have time  to make a new pdf, they can't make the change to the pdf because you've  converted everything to outlines.

But if you absolutely insist on  outlining your text in the InDesign File then please do it on a copy of the file, anytime  I've had to do it (for 1 of the 2 reasons above) I've called the file  "JOB_1_FINAL.indd" then a copy of the file called "JOB_1_FINAL_OL" (OL  standing for outline). That way you know which file to edit and you  don't lose all your text.