How to embed B, and C size engineering drawings into Pages documents

I am attempting to create a technical manual which includes both 8.5x11 pages (portrait orientation) and larger B and C sized PDF drawings (landscape orientation). My current process is exporting a finished Pages document to a PDF, and then manually dragging in the other drawing PDFs to create the final version. However, as both drawings and text regularly change, there is a great deal of effort to manually assemble a final doc. Plus, the TOC and other auto-updating fields in the Pages document change as new text is added, so page numbering the final PDF is a nightmare - it is presently done in Acrobat Pro.
Any suggestions on how to make the complete manual do the following:
1) remain in an easily editable Pages format conducive to regular updates?
2) allow for automatic updating of pages, fields, TOC, etc. as new text and/or drawings are added?
3) keep PDF drawings in vector format so they can be zoomed on-screen without becoming pixelated?
Thanks,
-Jon

My current process is exporting a finished Pages document to a PDF, and then manually dragging in the other drawing PDFs to create the final version. However, as both drawings and text regularly change, there is a great deal of effort to manually assemble a final doc. Plus, the TOC and other auto-updating fields in the Pages document change as new text is added, so page numbering the final PDF is a nightmare - it is presently done in Acrobat Pro.
In the past, Apple has system level support for portrait and landscape in one pagination. This system level support was in the graphics model, and was implemented e.g. in WordPerfect for Mac.
Presently, the situation is as you describe, first, the main pagination is output to PDF and, second, supplementary pages are inserted manually into the main pagination.
Off the cuff, I do not know if similar system level support is available in Mac OS X which is based on a somewhat different graphics model.
As I understand it, what you want is possible at application level in Microsoft Word, although I don't have experience with that application.
I would not know how to do what you want in QuarkXPress or InDesign in the versions I have. These applications using internal graphics implementations and bypass system level services on Mac OS X and Windows.
/hh

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