EPS and PDF?

i know i cannot get multi-page PDF's (slideshows) into Aperture but is there a way to /convert/ these to a file format Aperture can handle?
also, does anyone have any experience with whether i can get EPS into Aperture?
TIA

hi frank. thank you and apologies.
this sort of thing is hard to track and manage while trying to organize other data as well.
am i correct in understanding that this method basically will import the pdf as image files (as if you ran a Save As > tiff or jpg operation in Acrobat?
i mean, i do have a need for images of my pdf's but if i am storing the pdf that they came from (which i still need) separately from the imported images this all gets a bit unmanageable.
for instance i have some drawings in a pdf. i am storing this in a folder. i now need to be able to use individual pages of pdf to see if i can get vector data out of this pdf, but i also need some raster image files of these pages. right now i am just dumping all of this into a finder folder and moving it all around with only my /memory/ to remember what is where. so i am finding i am doing a lot of reorganizing of all this data week after week and month after month. then if i add in EPS files (the vector) to all of this and the fact that i can't apparently store the multipage PDF it seems like Aperture is not the tool to use for this. or - say i have a PDF "slideshow" but also a version of this that is in mov file fomat.
it is starting to seem like Aperture is not the correct organizational tool for all of this and that i should move to some kind of managed database tool that will let me store the data as "referenced" info but also like me get some kind of "meta" organization to all of it.
right now i am organizing and re-organizing over and over to keep it corralled.
maybe DevonThink is the way to go for this? or even Bento or something...?

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