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Creating a pdf that imports other pdf every time its opened

adamontario
Registered: Feb 28 2011
Posts: 5
Answered

Basically our corporation has several documents (pdf) that undergo changes from time to time. Openning these separately is fine but most of the time they need to be opened in sets that vary depending on use.
Example:
 
Main Documents 1,2,3,4,5,6
Sets of Documents A,B,C where A = 1,3,5
B = 2,4,6
C = 1,2,3,4,5,6
 
All can be opened independently but when you open Doc A it sources documents 1,3,5 and opens them in a single pdf document. This way when documents 1-6 need to be edited the sets do not need be recompiled.
 
Thanks,
Adam

adamontario
Registered: Feb 28 2011
Posts: 5
PS. We are using Acrobat 9 Standard BUT willing to upgrade if needed to accomplish the task.
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
This can only be achieved if all of the users of the file also have Acrobat. Is that the case?

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adamontario
Registered: Feb 28 2011
Posts: 5
No, the users will most likely have a free reader only (customers).

try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Accepted Answer
Then you can't combine the files.
However, you can use a script that will open all of these files when a document is opened, but they will be separate files.

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adamontario
Registered: Feb 28 2011
Posts: 5
Thank you try67, how would I go about doing that?
Thanks,
Adam

adamontario
Registered: Feb 28 2011
Posts: 5
PS. I checked out your site and would it be possible to use your PDFMerger script to run with in a pdf and then open the newly created pdf?
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Hi Adam,

Please send me an email to discuss this further.

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