How do you create a table of contents drawer for a PDF on a Mac OS X
10.3.9?  I need to be able to create the one large PDF out of several
smaller ones and have a drawer that lists the names of the smaller
PDF's so that they can be clicked in and take you to the first page of
that PDF.  I would perfer to not have to buy a program to do this, but
will if I have to.

Hello monpetiteoiseau,

Although there are several low cost programs for Mac OS X that can do
some minor editing (i.e., PDFPen, pdf-Office), none of them support
"PDF Bookmarks".  "PDF Bookmarks" are how "table of contents" within
PDFs are implemented.  Tiger has a bookmark feature for PDFs, but it
creates global (specific to one user on a machine) PDF bookmarks.

The only way you can really do it is to buy the full version of
Acrobat from Adobe.  Within Acrobat it's quite easy to accomplish what
you want to do.  The steps to create a bookmark are:

1. Use the full version of Acrobat to open the PDF you want to modify
2. Open the Bookmarks tab on the left side of the window
3. Navigate to the page you would like to bookmark (you can monitor
the page number changes using the page number field at the bottom of
the document)
4. In the Bookmarks tab in the left side of the window click Options->New Bookmark
5. Enter a name for the bookmark and hit enter

You can even use drag and drop to reorder the table of contents or
arrange it in a hierarchical manner.  You should also note that the
expanded state of hierarchy is preserved, so you should set it exactly
how you want it before you save.

Thanks for your question,
Emlyn

References:

Adobe Systems Incorporated
http://www.adobe.com/

Adobe Acrobat Family
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/

Adobe Acrobat Standard
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatstd/

Adobe Acrobat Professional
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/

PDFPen
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/

pdf-Office
http://shop.pdf-office.com/product_info.php?products_id=42