Highlighting PDF text using Pages?

My goal is to highlight key text in a multi-page PDF for review by others on my team. The original PDF has the commenting rights turned off, not allowing highlighting using Adobe Reader. My solutuion is to insert the PDF into a blank Pages document and layer a semi-transparent colored object over the selected text. That works fine but when I insert the PDF only the first page is appearing. I'm sure this has something to do with the nature of the PDF as an image but I wonder if there is a way to have all of the PDF pages available in Pages without having to capture and insert each page as an individual image?
Thanks for your advice.

Reefkeeper,
Have you considered marking up your pdf document in Preview? I'm not sure how the markups survive across platform boundaries, but I see that markups in Preview are preserved in Adobe Reader for Mac.
You can underline, highlight, comment, etc. See: http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#tutorial=annotatingpdfs
Regards,
Jerry
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