Export Large Indesign Document to Hyperlinked/Bookmarked PDF

I am trying to export a 600+ Indesign book as a PDF with hyperlinks and bookmarks but it constantly crashes. I have tried many things, including splitting the document into small batches, exporting and appending the pdfs but that is most time-consuming and definitely not efficient. I am using CS5. Does anyone have any solutions. Thanks.

There’s a script floating around but it’s easier to export one PDF and then use the extract pages command in Acrobat to make single pages.
Bob

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...and so on.
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S

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I have a multipage InDesign document with multiple hyperlinks, and some of those hyperlinks are very long and require more than one line. The hyperlinks that require more than one line look OK after conversion to PDF, but, if I hover the mouse over the link in the PDF, all the characters in the URL on the second line are missing, and the link doesnt work. I first discovered this using Acrobat Professional 7. I recently downloaded a trial version of Acrobat Professional 8, and I still have the problem, so I have concluded that the problem is with InDesign, not Acrobat.
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Membership Application
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