Reference a PDF

I'm kinda new at pages and i have a project i'm working on for work. here's my issue or at least i think it's an issue. My pages project will be exported as a PDF file and i'm trying to reference another PDF file that is 31 pages long, it's some term and conditions from work, all this will be a on a CD for our customers, can i point to the 31 page PDF file in a folder, not sure how to do this. If that can't be done, i understand the bookmark feature in pages, the whole project eventually will be about 100 pages long, if i just have everything in one PDF file and bookmark to the term and conditions, which right now is how i got it built, when the bookmark goes to that section of the PDF and the customer wants to print off the terms and conditions, how will i set it up so the 100 pages won't print just the 31 pages of terms and conditions do. thanks,, Charles

Charles
I hope you wrote the project clearer than that!
As I understand it:
a You have a 100 page Project to be saved as a .pdf
b You have a 31 page Terms & Conditions, held where?
c You want to Link (not bookmark) to the T&C
d You want the user to be able to print the T&C and your project separately
Answers
1. As I have said this is not a bookmark, which is for internal links in your document.
2. You can not link directly in Pages to a pdf file unless it has a URL and is stored on a website
3. You can edit the project pdf in *Adobe Acrobat Pro* to create the link to the T&C in a fixed location, say in the same folder or a sub folder. It will even allow you to choose which page in the 2nd document to link to.
4. *Preview .app* in Snow Leopard may be able to do this now, there have been some improvements in SL, but I am not running it to test this.
5. As the T&C are a separate document, the User will never be in the position where more than the current document, the T&C in this case, is offered for print. I am sure that most users can pick how much to print anyway.
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