Reverse-engineering fun: linked PDFs

["Sarah Blake" <Sarah -dot- Blake -at- microfocus -dot- com>]

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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