HELP! Combine PDF:s in acrobat 8 professional

Hi,
we have a lot of pdf:s that needs to be combined into one pdf-file. I have found the function comine / merge files into one pdf. It seeems ok, but leaves us one very big issue...we want the combined file to change, when we change the original pdf file. How could that be accomplished? Is it at all possible?
The reason is that we would like to avoid creating a new combined file everytime we update one of its included pdf's. We would like it to update for itself.
Please help if there is anybody who has a clue.
Regards
Annika
PS. The original files comes from InDesign CS3, if there is a solution already at this program...

We have this same problem. Depending on your application, this may or may not be suitable for your use.
Instead of starting with a combined pdf, we created collections. (Go to File, then Organizer. From here you either "open organizer" to get a current collection, which will be listed in the box to the left -towards the bottom,.. or "create a new collection".
collections are just links to original files. so everytime your original is updated, so is your collection.
Once you open the collection, select all the documents and either print them or create a combined pdf.
Play around with this and see if it works for you.

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