Doing so would result in a buggy/laggy document. I already tried. The number of pages is reasonable (260) but the number of figures is large (more that 150, and they are often in tif format to keep maximum quality).

For the moment I kept the numbering of my previous master document for all figures, tables and equations, so they are correctly numbered throughout all documents. I generated the lists of figures and tables, and the table of contents, in separate files by using RD.

Then I simply plan to merge all files in pdf format for the final print. But for that, I would need page numbering to continue one file after the other and I don't find any RD or field-based way to do it. Can you describe me one of these, or another convenient solution? Or maybe I should number my pages using a pdf page numbering utility when I have my final print? But then what to do to get correct page numbers in lists of figures/tables and table of contents?