Create a PDF by external Script

Hello Adobe Community,
My problem:
I have some InDesign(Interactive) PDF files, i want to cut them and merge together, without loosing the interactivity of PDF.
Also my Question:
Does exist any Adobe tool/service/etc they can i call with an external Script, to generate new PDF's by merge other PDF's?
Greez Dave

Within Creative Suite, not exactly.
Adobe have two systems that can automate the assembly of PDFs - LiveCycle and the Adobe PDF Library. LiveCycle is an enterprise-class server solution, and the PDF Library SDK is for programmers (C++, etc.). Neither are suitable for small-scale projects due to their cost and complexity.
If you don't care about automation, just use Acrobat. You can merge PDF files together through Acrobat's own interface or by context-clicking a bunch of PDFs in Explorer/Finder and choosing "Combine to PDF". Acrobat cannot be controlled by commandline options and it does not link to the ExtendScript tools used by the core CS6 applications, so combining files is entirely a mouse-driven manual process, but it's simple enough if you only have a handful of files to combine (or you're combining a large number of files into a small number of output documents).

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