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Paul,

I am reading between the lines, but it sounds as if the OTHER documents (specs, cutsheets, calculations, etc) are all created in other applications, from which their PDFs are created. Are you looking to create some kind of front end (like a TOC) that links to the other documents, maybe also binding them together into one PDF file? If so, then you just need an app that will create the front end and give you the slickness you want. Maybe Flash is then OK because it can produce a slick front end (never used it; just guessing).

If you are looking to bring all the other documents into one document application, then Frame may be it. But you have to think about how all the other documents are to be converted to Frame documents or imported into Frame documents. If all the other documents can be output as XML, then Frame can easily import them and all can be given a consistent format and look.

InDesign is another application that can import XML documents (I have not done this; but their literature indicates that it can). InDesign can probably give a slicker look than Frame, simply because it is a more modern tool.

Good luck,
Van