Creating multipage illustrator files

Has anyone heard if you can open a multipage pdf as a multipage illustrator file? Even if the pdf was not created in illustrator.

Lori Vik wrote:
Has anyone heard if you can open a multipage pdf as a multipage illustrator file? Even if the pdf was not created in illustrator.
I may be wrong but:
1. Until CS4, Illustrator did not support multipage docs. Whether CS4 can support a multi-page pdf is open to creation of the pdf.
Just checked, opening a multi-page pdf, it asks you which page... Caveat: the file was created from AI CS3.

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