Portfolio to single pdf with attachments

I am trying to combine a portfolio pdf (that contains 1500 pages of emails plus attachments) into ONE single pdf in chronological order of the emails. I can sort it in chronological order in the portfolio. However when I "combine files into a single PDF" it will only sort the files in alpha order according to the file name. HELP!

Open each Portfolio attached file. Save each so that you have individual files. Use Acrobat to combine the files. Use the Pages panel to manually reposition pages as desired or hire a developer to create a script to do this.
Basically you "cann't get there from here" with your Portfolio. Portfolio PDFs are PDFs with a special UI that uses Flash. All the other files are simply attached.
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Setup
Windows XP SP3 + Office 2007 Pro
Also, tested on Windows 7 64x + Office 2007 Pro
Same Issues.
The steps used are:
1) Open Adobe Acrobat 9.0
2) Click File
3) Combine
4) Merge Files into a single PDF
5) Add Files (select the required files)
6) Combine Files (which then processes and creates single PDF)
Results:
A single PDF is then created and as mentioned is occasionally affected by this issue of random gaps appearing within words.
Expected results:
A single PDF with the same formatting and layout as the original files.
I can not post screenshots of this issue for sercurity concerns but here is an example.
From my word document / or pdf (either way)
Drawing Contents
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Fabri ation ote
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Top A emb y Drawing
Bottom A emb y Drawing
S hemati
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Message was edited by: Bitzan

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I have checked though the Word documents that were used in the most recent merge. They don't have any spaces at these areas or strange formatting. I turned on the Show/Hide option to confirm if there was anything odd but I could not see anything. The formatting (Ctrl+D) shows the default font Arial, Regular, font 12.
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******BUG******
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An intermitent issue is occuring when merging multiple files into a single PDF in Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Standard, the resulting PDF file has gaps inbetween the letters of actual words. For example the word "document" may appear in part of the PDF as "doc ument". This seems to affect various parts of the final PDF file.
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