InDesign Index - Indexing a book and having page links in PDF

I am creating an index on a book made up from 30 indesign documents.  When I export the book to a PDF I want to be able to click on the index page numbers and have it go to that page.  The problem is that I can only get the index links in a PDF to work on the document that I have the index.  If I have my index in the last document and I create a index entry to the second page it creates it fine but once exported into a PDF the link doesn't work.  In CS4 I created small books like this with no problems.
Any sugestions?
Thanks,
Josh

Joshmon2003 wrote:
Peter,
The links that work look like this:
The links that are not working look like this:
for some reason indesign CS5 created the link differently when it is in a different document but in the same book.  Any ideas on how to fix this??  In CS4 this worked fine.
Thanks,
Josh
Hi, Josh:
You didn't mention the Tagged PDF and Buttons and Media settings. Not sure if they make a difference, but it helps to know as much as possible, sometimes.
The failing link is looking for a PDF file on the H: drive, while the successful link doesn't specify a directory path. I haven't done much specifically in InDesign with exported multi-file books. However, from my Acrobat experience, I can see that the individual files of your InDesign multi-file book are being converted to individual PDF files, and their original paths are retained in the exported links.
I don't know if the link paths are different if you export the book to PDF by deselecting all the individual InDesign book files by clicking in the blank area below the last title in the Book panel, and choose Export Book to PDF from the Book panel menu, or if you select all the titles and choose Export Selected Documents to PDF.
As far as I know, there's no way to create a single PDF from a multi-file InDesign book document, though it's likely that the links would work because no pathname would be involved, as with your successful link.
Are all the individual book files in a single folder (a single path), or scattered across multiple folders (multiple paths)?
If you want your PDF book to be a collection of individual files, on thing you can try is to use Package Book for Print from the Book panel's menu. This copies everything that comprises all the individual book files, and their linked content, into one folder, with a single pathname. Exporting the book file created by the package should make all the link paths the same, so there's a good chance you'll get what you want.
When you say that this worked in an earlier InDesign release, do you mean that the same set of project files worked in the past and are failing now in CS5? Or, is your current project a new one, with assets in multiple folders? Were all the component files and the linked stuff in your old successful project, all in one folder? 
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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