Custom Bookmark Format for Law Firm

Question

I have a client who is a transactional attorney and she needs to deliver a "closing cd" to all partied involved, which is basically a copy of all the documents for the current RE deal.  She showed me an examlpe of another law firms closing CD and asked me to prepare hers in a similar format.
I'm having difficulty figuring this out.  I have 24 seperate PDF files, all combined equals approximatly 599 pages.  I'm using Acrobat X and can easily created one single PDF file with the bookmarks being the name of the files being added.  All is good until this point.  When I browse the bookmarks, it takes me to that section of the 599 page document and this is what I need, but I only want the page count of the particular file that was attached, not the combined of all files.  This way, if her clients say needs to print the Purchase Contract, he/she would simply click on that bookmark and it would show page 1 of 21 and they can hit print for that section only.  The way it is now, they would have to go to that bookmark and than scroll ahead to figure out what pages go with that file.
I hope I'm making some sense becasue this is driving me nuts.
Oh, the way the file in the sample cd she gave me is set-up is...if you right click on a bookmark, hit properties and then actions, they have it set-up to open a file on click.  I tried that and it opens it for sure but in a different window, closing the original window.
Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use the precursor to PDF Portfolios, which were known as Packages. A package is simply a PDF with one or more file attachments. (A Portfolio is too, but the base PDF is a special type of PDF that includes the Flash-based navigator.) You have to decide on what you want the base document to be, which can be a single page PDF that simply has links on the page to the attached PDF. It can also have bookmarks that link to the attached PDF, which is what you want.
Start by opening the base PDF in Acrobat. To add file attachments in Acrobat 10, select: Tools > Content > Attach a File
and select one or more of the documents you want to include in the package. Repeat, if necessary, until you've attached all the documents.
To set up a bookmark to a location in an attached document, add a new bookmark as you normally would. By default, it will link to the current view of the base document, but you want to change this. Delete the default bookmark action (right-click > Properties > Actions) and add one that is the type "Go to a page view". When prompted with the "Create Go to View" dialog, double-click the corresponding attached file in the Attachments pane at the bottom of the Acrobat window and navigate to the page you want the bookmark to open to, set the zoom and location, and click the "Set Link" button. You probably want the document to open in its own window, so go back and edit the bookmark you just added (Bookmark Properties > Actions > select the action > Edit) and in the "Open in" dropdown, select "New Window". Repeat for any other bookmarks to the same or other attached documents that you want to create. When one of the bookmarks is clicked, Acrobat will open the corresponding attached document in a separate window at the page and view you set up.
If you set up the base document to include links to the attached document, the process for setting up the links is similar to the way you set up the bookmarks.