Importing multiple page PDF Files

Michael and others:

My team also needs this "feature" or ability to import each page of a pdf into the Framemaker file. My company is on Framemaker 11 right now. We routinely manufacture parts for our customers and we routinely may subcontract testing procedures to subcontractors. We routinely receive a technical report from our subcontractor to document the test results. We are contractually required to include the report our subcontractor provided to us in our report to our customer. These subcontracted reports can range anywhere from 10 pages to 400 pages. (And frankly our customer may have to include our report in their report to their customer! Up the food chain it goes!)

Our current process involves MS Word and we are trying to migrate to Framemaker. The lack of this capability is a stumbling block for us. We cannot manually insert 400 pages of images and resize them in Framemaker. And MS Word has its own issues with long/large documents.

With MS Word, we currently resize the PDF we receive by printing the PDF to new page dimensions that match the size of the MS Word text flow area, 6.5 x 8.5 for example. We then export the resized PDF pages as JPG files into a folder. Acrobat exports and names the graphics ._page_1, ._page-02, etc. in the Windows folder. We then drag and drop the jpg files from the folder into MS Word at the insertion point. The images  are automatically inserted in the proper order, perfectly sized.

With Framemaker we cannot import all the pages of a PDF. Framemaker appears to only permit 1 page at a time as far as I can tell. This is not practical for us.

We need the ability to:

1. import (or "place" using InDesign terminology) a pdf where the import process will import all pages of our third party pdf into an appendix for example.

2. during import,

     A. all the imported pdf pages are imported automatically (not 1 at a time) and new pages are created in Framemaker. (Pagemaker used to call this autoflow, I believe).

     B. the imported pages should be automatically resized to the "text" flow region of the Framemaker document.

As I described above, we can continue to resize the pdf to the Framemaker main body text flow and that will solve 2B above, but the automatic import of a several hundred page PDF does not seem possible.

Does anyone know if this can be accomplished in Framemaker or via the Framemaker SDK? If so, any recommendations, suggestions or people interested in coding this for us?

Thanks in advance and thanks for reading.

Joe