My question is two pronged:

I have a third party program that creates storm water reports,
Hydraflow Hydrographs (www.intelisolve.com). They are simple crystal
reports graphics as output.

I would like to print out the output to PDF format and organize it
into a report, complete with page numbers, table of contents, headers,
and footers. With Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0, or any other
program.

Question 1. Problem is that Hydraflow is not efficiently written, and
sends each page (of up to a 300 page or so report) to the print
spooler seperately. If I set a PDF printer, it asks for the name of
each page. This would be extremely inefficient. Is there a way to
"capture" what goes to that printer and save as a PDF somehow? Adobe
doesn't seem to have a solution.

Question 2. Are there any suggestions for a program better than
Acrobat that would accept all these different file types (dwg, doc,
xls, pdf, jpg, etc.) and enables me to merge them all into one
document and create a professional looking report? I know you can do
this in Word, but it just doesn't seem like it's made for it, and it
takes a lot of fiddling to get it work and look the way you want it
to.

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Clarification of Question by zoobaby-ga on 18 Jan 2005 07:57 PST

I do have the most current version of the software. Unfortunatley,
their software support leaves something to be desired. I tried
calling, and suggesting it for future upgrades, but haven't recieved a
response.

They appear to offer better reporting capability now (
http://www.intelisolve.com/HydroWhat'sNew.html ).  Would that solve
your problem?  It may be better if the program does it without a
manual intervention to create the sort of report you want (I can
imagine a lot of users wanting that capability).  If the report
feature is not sufficient, you may want to (1) ask them for the
features you need and (2) ask their technical support about theier
recommendation to solve your problem in the near term.

Others may be able to give you a better answer as a work around.

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