Hello, I work at an engineering company that stores our individual CAD drawings as PDF's. I am looking for a way to create a file to represent an assembly that would appear like a merged or portfolio PDF of all of the individual PDF drawings into one master file. However, that master file would need to always pull in the latest revision of all individual PDF's. In essence, I want to create a linked "portfolio" type document but for revision control purposes I don't want to ever risk using out-of-date drawings. I would appreciate any suggestions or instructions. Thank you.
You can create a "master" file with links to the other files, and then overwrite those files each time with the new version. Of course, each user will have to be able to access those files, either online (if that's where they are located) or on a network folder, for example.
Thanks try67. I understand your suggestion but I am hoping for two characteristics that I don't think your solution provides: 1. The individual files need to update automatically (in my case the source filenames will always remain the same so I'm hopeful this could work), and 2. I'd like for this document to appear as a collection of PDF pages rather than a bunch of links.
2. I'm afraid that's not possible, unless you create some system to automatically re-create this file each time one of the source documents is updated. That is not too complicated to do, but not from within Acrobat.
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