How to tweak hyperlinkExternalPageDestinations

Question

Hi there,
I don't know if this is an InDesign or Acrobat problem:
I am generating in INDD CS3 a table of contents with hundres of links to
external PDF files for distribution on a CD. The text contains hidden
markers which I convert via a script to hyperlinks using the following
code, where "myFile" is a realtive path.
myHyperlinkDestination = myDocument.hyperlinkExternalPageDestinations.add(myURL);
  myHyperlinkDestination.documentPath = "./"+myFile;
  myHyperlinkDestination.destinationPageIndex = eval(myFindPage);
  myHyperlinkDestination.viewSetting = HyperlinkDestinationPageSetting.fitWindow;
I must do it this way because I first generate a tagged text file and INDD
would stubbornly ignore file://  links.
The problem is this. The code works well and creates the links in PDF but on exprting
to Acrobat the latter reads it as "go to a page in another document" and not as "open
another document" (as when set manually in Acrobat itself).
The difference is that in the first instance the current or master PDF document
always closes itself (regardless of the corss document opening set in
preferences) before opening the linked document which is annoying.
In the old days (from PageMaker through INDD 2) I had built as separate PS
file with link annotations which I added when distilling the inDesign file
but that complicated matters and had to be re-generated each time a small
change was made in the layout.
Can you think of a way to tweak the script, to automatically embedd a PS file or of another trick to
prevent PDF from closing itself?
Your help will be gratly appreciated.
texan02

Answer 1

Thanks for your tip.
I had tried that some time ago but found it extremely difficult due to the fact that inDD only wants to link to existing *.indd files.
Is there, instead, a way to include annots via scripting or to generate a separate *.ps file that can be linked automatically during the distilling process?
Alternatively do you know of a way to make global changes via javascript in Acrobat?
rgs, texane02