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That sounds pretty much like the format we use for some of our support
libraries. (i.e. PDFs of all the product information for a given large
product on a CD).
We create a "Home" page that has some instructions on using the library,
plus the top-level list of contents in the form of manually-compiled
bookmarks.
Each component comes with it's own list of bookmarks, to which we just
add the "Home" bookmark that links back to the Home page.
We also create a collection index for searches across the entire
"library" of PDFs.
So the answer is that the top-level page may have been created manually.
Bear
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Subject: Reverse-engineering fun: linked PDFs
Hi all,
In my ever more fun quest to find out the doc processes that vanished
from mortal ken along with the previous author, I've come across the
following: a set of FrameMaker files that are released as a set of
linked PDFs. That is, there is a 'master' PDF with a ToC listing each
of the available PDFs. Opening any individual PDF gives you the ToC for
that PDF, plus a link back to the master.
Because some of these files are launched from the application, I need to
produce the same output, but I can't for the life of me figure out how
it's done. There isn't a 'master' FM book anywhere, and none of the FM
books link to each other in any way, so I assume it's done through
Acrobat (version 7). But I don't have much experience with Acrobat, and
all I can find in the help is instructions for combining a set of files,
which isn't what's been done here.
It's always possible that I'm being blind and/or stupid, but if so I've
been blind/stupid for so long now that it doesn't seem likely that I'm
going to see the light any time soon :) Any pointers?
Sarah Blake
Senior Technical Author
Micro Focus
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