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Gang-- 

Here's the "thinking outside the box" solution: The Acrobat Distiller implements "pdfmark," a special set of PostScript operators for adding hyperlinks to PDFs. If you embed pdfmark command in an EPS, and then run the EPS through the Distiller, you can get page navigation, URL links, email links, and so on in your PDF. 

It follows, therefore, that you can place these EPSs in InDesign, then print PostScript to disk, and then run the resulting PostScript through the Distiller to create a PDF with "fancy" pdfmark features. 

Here's an EPS that adds a "next page" hyperlink: 

%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2 
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 36 36 
%%Creator:(O. M. Kvern) 
%%Title:(pdfmark_next_page.eps) 
%%CreationDate:(June 26, 2002) 
%%EndComments 
.25 setlinewidth 
newpath 
0 0 moveto 
36 18 lineto 
0 36 lineto 
closepath 
%---------- 
%pdfmark next page 
systemdict /pdfmark known { 
pathbbox 
/ury exch def 
/urx exch def 
/lly exch def 
/llx exch def 
[/Rect [llx lly urx ury ] 
/Border [0 0 0] 
/Page /Next 
/View [/XYZ null null null] 
/LNK pdfmark 
} if 
%---------- 
stroke 
%%End of file 
 

Copy the above text out of the message, paste it into a text editor, and save it with the file extension .EPS. 

Here's the "previous page" version: 

%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2 
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 36 36 
%%Creator:(O. M. Kvern) 
%%Title:(pdfmark_previous_page.eps) 
%%CreationDate:(June 26, 2002) 
%%EndComments 
.25 setlinewidth 
newpath 
0 18 moveto 
36 0 lineto 
36 36 lineto 
closepath 
%---------- 
%pdfmark previous page 
systemdict /pdfmark known { 
pathbbox 
/ury exch def 
/urx exch def 
/lly exch def 
/llx exch def 
[/Rect [llx lly urx ury ] 
/Border [0 0 0] 
/Page /Prev 
/View [/XYZ null null null] 
/LNK pdfmark 
} if 
%---------- 
stroke 
%%End of file 
 

Do the same copy/paste/save as EPS operation with this text. Now you have two pdfmark-enhanced EPS graphics. Place them on the document pages and/or (even better) master pages of an InDesign document. When you want to create a PDF from the document, don't use PDF export--instead, print PostScript to disk and generate the PDF using the Distiller. When you do this, Distiller will read the pdfmark commands and turn them into nifty next page/previous page links in the resulting PDF. 

Thanks, 

Ole